Description: Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is one of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale's final works, and it reveals 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: Dry and luminous, sharp-edged and visionary. . . . William Arrowsmith's translations [are] as tough, delicate, and unsentimental as the originals.--Rachel Hadas