Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972
Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is one of the Nobel Prize–winning poet Eugenio Montale’s final works, and it reveals the last act of the twentieth-century master to be one of splendid negation.
Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is ruled by a brusque economy, and Montale’s is, here, a poetics of magnificent reduction. The poet meditates on the very conditions of his art: language reveals itself to be madness, and poetry a broken promise. The Muse has become a scarecrow: “She still has / one sleeve, with which she conducts her scrannel / straw quartet. It’s the only music I can stand.” And yet music it is, and time and time again Montale attains a contrarian grandeur that renews faith in the…
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December 4, 2012EUGENIO MONTALE (1896-1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely considered the greatest Italian lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi.
Montale: Poems
Eugenio Montale; Edited by Jonathan Galassi
Poetic Notebook 1974-1977
Eugenio Montale;William Arrowsmith
Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972
Eugenio Montale
The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale