Late Montale : poems written in his final years / selected and translated by George Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montale, Eugenio, 1896-1981, author.

Contributor:

Bradley, George, 1953- compiler, translator.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian poetry.

Montale, Eugenio, 1896-1981--Translations into English.

Montale, Eugenio.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xx, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire ; Baltimore, MD : the Waywiser Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Italian text; parallel English translation

Summary:

"Late Montale presents a generous selection of the intimate, elusive, and trenchant poems that the Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale wrote in the last several years of his life. Translated by the prize-winning poet George Bradley (Yale Younger Poet, 1985), the work chosen for this volume includes fifty-six poems that were previously unavailable in English and now form an important addition to the Montale ouvre. Bradley's idiomatic, accurate, and graceful versions bring Montale's Italian to the anglophone audience with a new immediacy, and the extensive notes he provides offer valuable information, much of it newly uncovered, regarding the many people and places referenced. Both readers coming to Montale for the first time and those familiar with his earlier work will find these translations compelling, and anyone interested in world-class literature will find Late Montale a fascinating volume."--Amazon.com

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: From Satura

Xenia I, 13

Xenia II, 5

Xenia II, 14

History

I. "History does not unfold ..."

II. "Then again, history isn't ..."

The Rhymes

Letter

Le Revenant

Time and Times

The Black Angel

The Arno at Rovezzano

Down There

Rebecca

From Diary Of '71 And '72 (Diario Del '71 E Del '72)

The Arte Povera

Hiding Places

My Muse

Fire

At This Point

The Clock with the Carillon Chimes

The New Iconographers

Lake Sorapis, 40 years Ago

From Four-Year Notebook (Quaderno Di Quattro Ann I)

Honor

Solitude

Heroism

Reading Cavafy

For a Cut Flower

Fire and Darkness

Soliloquy

"The blackcap wasn't killed ..."

Questions without an Answer

Beside Lake Orta

In a Northern City

About a Lost Cat

Hypothesis

In No Danger

Aspasia

"Protect me ..."

Lakeside Drive

Mirages

Other Poems (Altriversi)

I

"... Leafy cupolas from which a polyphony ..."

"That idiot blackbird showed up late ..."

"Winter drags on, the sun is using ..."

The Fleas

Prose for A.M.

Motifs

"Perhaps it wasn't useless ..."

"Its armor reduced to a tip of its shell, the lobster ..."

"It may be that now is the moment to tug ..."

"When the squeaking of a bat ..."

Critical Notes

I. Hunting

II. It Might Be

"Friends, put no faith in light-years ..."

"The Big Bang must have produced ..."

Zigging and Zagging

Ruminating

I. "Probably ..."

II. "It seems firmly established that life was born ..."

Today

While We Wait

Nursery

Hypothesis II

"How the horizon shrinks ..."

"The crust of this earth is thinner ..."

The Allegory

May the Worst Man Win

"With what voluptuous delight ..."

"A scuffle of angry chickens ..."

"It isn't cruel like Valery's sparrow ..."

"The future has been over for a while ..."

"The gigantic initial explosion ..."

"Probably I can say the word `I' ..."

Time and Times II

The Oboe

The Performance

"Did the guy who staged this cabaret ..."

"If the universe was born ..."

"One may be on the right ..."

Jupiterian

"When my name appeared in almost all the papers ..."

In the Orient

At First Light

Monologue

To a Muse in Training

II To My Friend Pea

Nixon in Rome

Caffaro

At the Giardino D'Italia

"Thirty years have passed, maybe forty ..."

Succulents

Kid Duffer

A Female Visitor

Hiding Places II

I. "The canebreak where I used to go hide as a child ..."

II. "A moon a little swollen ..."

October Blood

An Invitation to Lunch

In Doubt

Glory or Something Like It

"It seems impossible ..."

"No more news ..."

"Wipe your misty eyeglasses ..."

"My Swiss timepiece had the vice ..."

Of Luni and Other Things

"I have great faith in you ..."

Clizia Says

Clizia in '34

Predictions

Internal/External

In '38

Quartet

"Since life is fleeting ..."

I Believe

To Claudia Muzio

"When the blackcap ..."

Beloved of the Gods

A Visit

A Note on "A Visit"

Ah!

From Fugitive Poems (Poesie Disperse)

Little Diary

The Drama

The Gift

Empty Talk

The Glory of Useless Lives

Life in Plain Words

The House In Olgiate And Other Poems (La Casa Di Olgiate E Autre Poesie)

[I]. The House in Olgiate

[II]. "I don't know if what I smell ..."

[III]. "And now here come the herbicides ..."

[IV]. The Military Parade

[V]. In the Apartment Block

1. "A little black cat ..."

2. "And we poor devils, starving ..."

[VI]. "The marriage ..."

[VII]. "At an early hour ..."

[VIII]. "They sent me a crown from Yugoslavia ..."

[IX]. "Our culture is advancing with giant steps ..."

[X]. "For having served his customers ..."

[XI]. G. Pascoli

[XII]. Rarity of the Raptors

[XIII]. "Justice these days moves at a rapid pace ..."

[XIV]. "The days of the antelope were tormented ..."

[XV]. In the Garden

[XVIa]. "Life is like a cigar ..."

[XVIb]. "Like a Havana cigar ..."

[XVIc]. "But if a cigar existed ..."

[XVII]. From a Garden Window

[XVIII]. About-Face

[XIX]. "No one has ever looked death ..."

[XX]. "I'm walking chicken-hobble ..."

[XXI]. "We went over to the `bow window' or some such ..."

[XXII]. "Time and space, two unlivable ..."

[XXIII]. "It's a mistake to believe ..."

[XXIV]. "Concerning the universe, the city of God ..."

[XXV]. "After the invention of the internal combustion engine ..."

[XXVI]. "We're imprisoned in an allegory ..."

[XXVII]. "People talk and talk more ..."

[XXVIII]. "The telephone rings ..."

[XXIX]. "In the field of science ..."

[XXX]. On the Telephone

[XXXI]. "When I enter the cemetery ..."

[XXXII]. "The storm announces its arrival ..."

[XXXIII]. "There are those who live with one foot there ..."

[XXXIV]. "They say every new love cancels the old ..."

[XXXV]. Hypothesis

[XXXVI]. After Bendandi

[XXXVII]. "It's almost certain that the planet Jupiter ..."

[XXXVIII]. "The religious wars ..."

[XXXIX]. "Even if one discovered ..."

[XL]. "When science has exhausted ..."

[XLI]. "An Everything that might be a Nothing ..."

[XLII]. Simon Boccanegra

[XLIII]. "It has never been proved that the world ..."

[XLIV]. "The last dregs of multitudinous ..."

[XLV]. "There's no doubt Theology ..."

[XLVI]. The New Art

[XLVII]. "That the Being has many encounters and interactions ..."

[XLVIII]. "On the veranda ..."

[XLIX]. "The idea that something might exist ..."

[L]. "Unarguably ..."

[LI]. "It's almost certain that there exist ..."

[LII]. "A puff of gas ..."

[LIII]. "The Polish Pope ..."

[LIV]. "To have heard the roosters ..."

[LV]. German Scientists

[LVI]. In someone's spare time.

ISBN:

1911379089

9781911379089

1911379054

9781911379058

OCLC:

1293650809

Publisher Number:

99993229287