{"product_id":"montale-in-english-9781590511275","title":"Montale in English","description":"\u003cp\u003eThen out of nowhere after years of silence the words we used  our unobstructed accents  will well up from the dark of childhood  and once more on our lips well taste Greek salt. -from \"Salt \" translated by Jamie McKendrick  Eugenio Montale (1896 - 1981) was the greatest Italian poet since Leopardi  perhaps since Petrarch  and is generally acknowledged as one of the preeminent European poets of the last century. His lyrical  mysterious poems abound in natural imagesthe high cliffs and inlets of the Ligurian coast  golden sunflowers  scolding blackbirds  and sun-scorched landscapes. Indeed  in the view of James Merrill  whose superb translations of several of Montales poems appear in this volume  Montale was \"the twentieth-century nature poet \" in whose lines \"any word can lead you from the kitchen garden into really inhuman depths.\" Also full of mythological and literary resonance  Montales poems poignantly explore the connection between nature  the individual  and the divine.  Montale in English draws on the poets eight major collections  bringing together translations  adaptations  and homages by fifty-eight American  English  Scottish  Australian  and Italian poets and scholars  including Samuel Beckett  David Ferry  Jonathan Galassi  Jorie Graham  Robert Lowell  Edwin Morgan  and Charles Wright. The editors introduction gives a precise account of the history of Montales reception in English  and by providing an analysis of four translations of a single poem  contributes to the controversial issue of poetic translation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932332818485,"sku":"ByrdShop_1590511271","price":92.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781590511275.jpg?v=1794224372","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/montale-in-english-9781590511275","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}