Read a Passage From Jonathan Galassi’s Book-Length Poem, The Vineyard

Watching the Vineyard Flow: An Interview with Jonathan Galassi - Chicago Review of Books

At age 77, Jonathan Galassi stands for more than himself and his own celebrated career as poet and translator. Unarguably, he is an icon of the book publishing industry, a luminary of the literary world at its most thoughtful and urbane—a man who has edited such diverse talents as Pat Conroy, Louis Auchincloss, Anne Sexton, and Galway Kinnell, in addition to launching Scott Turow’s 1987 mega best-seller, Presumed Innocent. Galassi attended Harva…

Read a Passage From Jonathan Galassi’s Book-Length Poem, The Vineyard

black-and-blue and purple salvia.What makes guaranitica so special?Does it winter over? Come on, Mac,I thought you were a pro.(This year’s yellow-orange crocosmiaare another story,though they don’t show so well in the far bed.) Vita was the greatest pro of all.Vita Sackville-Westof Sissinghurst White Garden fame,Virginia Woolf ’s great passion,model for Orlando,whose poems The Land and The Garden,unread today, define a certainelegiac English lan…