Eugenio Montale, trans. from the Italian by William Arrowsmith, edited by Rosanna Warren. Norton, $49.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-393-08063-6
Perhaps the major poet of 20th-century Italy, Montale (1896–1981)—who won the Nobel Prize in 1975— now seems like three poets in one. His first book, Cuttlefish Bones, announced a vividly sensuous yet self-skeptical man closely tied to Liguria, the...
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Eugenio Montale, Author, William Arrowsmith, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $25 (269p) ISBN 978-0-393-02803-4
``All my poetry,'' Montale ( The Storm and Other Things ) once said, ``is a waiting for the miracle.'' That miracle began with the extraordinary voice that speaks in this first book, Ossi di seppia , published in 1925 when Montale was 29: an...
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Eugenio Montale, Author, Jonathan Galassi, Introduction by Turtle Point Press $16.95 (187p) ISBN 978-1-885586-22-3
Many American readers enjoy the Italian poet Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) in Jonathan Galassi's celebrated translations. Now Galassi (editor-in-chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux) offers the first English translation of Montale's controversial...
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