Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972

by Eugenio Montale

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393344193
• ISBN13: 9780393344196
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"