Eugenio Montale's epoch-making first book, Cuttlefish Bones (1925), has been hailed as one of the truly important works of poetry in the twentieth century.
A collection of poems in Italian and English by the 1975 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature reveals an innovative use of dialogue, journalistic language, song, and other techniques. Reprint.
This selection, introduced by Glauco Cambon, present sixty-nine poems chosen from Montale's first three books, as rendered by sixteen translators, many of them distinguished poets in their own right.