Heather Hartley is the author of Knock Knock and Paris Editor for Tin House. Her poems, essays and interviews have appeared in The Guardian, Tin House, Post Road, and elsewhere. She lives in Paris, where she curates Shakespeare & Company Bookshop's weekly reading series, and teaches creative writing and poetry at the American University of Paris.
A concise and erudite presentation of and meditation on the complex and solitary figure of Leopardi, it is also an exploration of the major themes and forms of the poems…