Acclaiming the late Eugenio Montale (1897-1981) as “one of the most important poets of the contemporary West,” the Swedish Academy awarded him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. This selection, introduced by Glauco Cambon, presents sixty-nine poems chosen from Montale’s first three books–– Ossi di seppia ( Cuttlefish Bones ), Le occasioni ( The Occasions ), and La bufera e altro ( The Storm and Other Things )––as rendered by sixteen translators, many of them distinguished poets in their own right.
