An elegant, emotionally riveting collection--his first in a decade--by the acclaimed poet, translator, and publisher: fifty poems that tell a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.

Left-Handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella: as a marriage breaks apart, a new self and new love are born. These decisive, wrenching poems take us from the streets of New York City to a house in the country, from the island of Naxos to the Roman Forum, reaching back to the sonnets of Shakespeare but finding inspiration, too, in contemporary life. Naked and raw, lyrical and formally inventive, rich with the melancholy knowledge of age, this is a work of resonant and memorable beauty.