ORDERS

Readings Orders 0

DEMANDS

Readings Demands 0

Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 (Translation)
[Paperback - 2013]
In Stock
List Price: $16.95
Our Price: Rs.1395 Rs.1255
Standard Discount: 10%
You Save: Rs.140
Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | ISBN: 9780393344196 | Pages: 0
Shipping Weight: 0 | Dimensions: 0

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 art he punishes. These poems are dense and dramatic, evasive and erotic and vividly alive.

Eugenio Montale produced only five volumes of poetry in his first 50 years as a writer. But when the Swedish Academy awarded the Italian poet and critic the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature, they called him “one of the most important poets of the contemporary West,” Publishers Weekly reported. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1896, Montale had a long and distinguished career as a translator and critic in addition to his poetic achievements.

Also by the Same Author

View All

Bestsellers in Literature

View All