cover image GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI: Selected Poems

GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI: Selected Poems

Giuseppe Ungaretti, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-374-26075-0

This edition, well-translated and annotated by poet-essayist Frisardi, brings the modernist achievement of Ungaretti (1888–1970) to light. Most searing here are the WWI poems, "Up in the light vault/ the spell is broken// And I plummet into myself// And go dark in my nest." (Dec.)