Description: Poetic Notebook 1974-1977, one of the final volumes assembled by Eugenio Montale before his death, shows the last act of the twentieth-century master to be one of splendid negation.
Brief description: Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
Review Quotes: Thirty years after Montale's death, his poetry is still vividly alive. . . . As we read through this incredibly rich poetic itinerary that traverses the heart of the twentieth century's devastations and yearnings, we understand once more why Montale is known as one of modernity's greatest poets.--Rebecca West