Poetic Notebook 1974-1977

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ISBN-10: 0393344185
ISBN-13: 9780393344189
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 12/03/2012
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.40" W, 0.80" H

Poetic Notebook 1974-1977

byEugenio Montale
Translator: William Arrowsmith
Editor: Rosanna Warren

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Price: $16.95

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Poetic Notebook 1974-1977 evokes a magnificent savagery, an attack on the poet himself and on the nihilistic squalor that he observes around him. An old man, Montale remembers his youth and recalls the dead. At times he seems to wonder if he himself is dead. And so his is a grim majesty, a new kind of poetry that faces the void: “She’s lied too often, now let darkness, / void, nothingness fall on her page. / Rely on this, my scribbling friend: / Trust the darkness when the light lies.”

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Thirty years after Montale's death, his poetry is still vividly alive. . . . As we read through this incredibly rich poetic itinerary that traverses the heart of the twentieth century's devastations and yearnings, we understand once more why Montale is known as one of modernity's greatest poets.–Rebecca West
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393344185
ISBN-13: 9780393344189
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 12/03/2012
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.40" W, 0.80" H
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