Montale's Essential: The Poems of Eugenio Montale in English

Di Alessandro Baruffi

Eugenio Montale’s idiosyncratic poetry has challenged many English-language translators because of its obscure, often cryptic language. This essential anthology of Montale's work, the latest and most comprehensive English translation of this century, features poems from his masterpiece collections "Ossi di Seppia" (Cuttlefish Bones, 1925,) "Le Occasioni" (The Occasions, 1939,) and "Xenia” (1966.)

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Alba
• Data di uscita: 14 feb 2018
• ISBN: 9781387215850

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Montale's Essential: The Poems of Eugenio Montale in English

Copyright © 2017 by Alessandro Baruffi

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First Printing: 2017

ISBN: 978-1-387-21585-0

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Cover image: Portrait of Eugenio Montale

An intense, unusual picture of Poet Eugenio Montale.

Sit the noon out, pale and absorbed in thought

Sit the noon out, pale and absorbed in thought

beside a burning garden wall,

hear, among blackthorns and brambles,

clicks of blackbirds, rustles of snakes.

In the cracked earth or on the vetch,

spy the red ants’ lines

now interrupted, now interwoven

on top of tiny piles.

Observe through branches the distant

throbbing of scales of sea,