Selected Poems
Montale, Eugenio / Camson, Glauco
Acclaiming the late Eugenio Montale (1897-1981) as "one of the most important poets of the contemporary West, " the Swedish Academy awarded him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. This selection, introduced by Glauco Cambon, presents sixty-nine poems chosen from Montale's first three books--Ossi di seppia (Cuttlefish Bones), Le occasioni (The Occasions), and La bufera e altro (The Storm and Other Things)--as rendered by sixteen translators, ...