Collected Poems, 1920-1954 » (REV)

Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. Jonathan Galassi has also translated Montale's The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays and Otherwise: Last and First Poems.

Acknowledged as the most influential Italian writer since Gabriele D'Annunzio, Nobel Prize winner Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) brought the Italian lyric tradition, beginning with Dante and continuing through Petrarch, Manzoni, and Leopardi, into the 20th century. His work deals courageously and subtly with the political, historical, and existential dilemmas of the modern era, and his deep attraction to Anglo-American poetry has in turn found echoes in two generations of American and British poets. Now, in his new translations of Cuttlefish Bones, The Occasions, and The Storm and Other Things , Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and president of the Academy of American Poets, presents the clearest, most accurate, and most convincing translations yet made of Montale's major work.

The New Yorker - Edward Hirsch

He is the Debussy of modern poetry, and in Jonathan Galassi's fresh translation of Montale's main achievement, Collected Poems 1920-1954, the English-speaking reader is given clear access to a body of work that has a severe majesty....It is a joyous fulfillment of Italian poetry.