Selected Poems [Paperback]

Montales poems range from daily life through history and myth, and on to questions of metaphysics and divinity. As a love poet, a landscape poet, and a spiritual pilgrim he has few equals. Translators Galassi, Wright, and Young recreate the distinctive music of a poet whose poems prove rich and compelling to an ever-growing body of readers.

INTRODUCTION from CUTTLEFISH BONES (OSSI DI SEPPIA), 1920-27 At the Threshold The Lemons Falsetto Almost a Fantasia Wind and Flags Dont Ask Us for the Word To Spend the Afternoon I Think about Your Smile Bring Me the Sunflower Again and Again I Have Seen Lifes Evil Glory of Expanded Noon Maybe One Morning The Wells Pulley Creaks Mediterranean Arsenio House by the Sea The Dead Delta from OCCASIONS (LE OCCASIONI), 1928-39 The Balcony Lindau Bagni di Lucca Another Moon Effect Near Vienna To Liuba, Leaving Dora Markus Motets The Customs Hut Low Tide Summer Eastbourne Boats on the Marne News from Mount Amiata from THE STORM & OTHER POEMS (LA BUFERA E ALTRO), 1940-54 The Storm Seaside Walk On a Letter Never Written In Sleep Indian Serenade Fiesole Window The Red Lily To My Mother Florentine Madrigals Ballad Written in a Clinic Two in the Twilight Where the Tennis Court Was... Visit to Fadin Towards Siena On the Greve The Black Trout Towards Finisterre Syria Winter Light Iris In the Greenhouse In the Park The Kitchen Garden Beach at Versilia Hitler Spring Voice That Came with the Coots The Eel Three Private Madrigals Anniversary Little Testament The Prisoners Dream from SATURA, 1962-70 Xenia, I Xenia, II La Belle Dame Sans Merci After a Flight Down There from ALTRI VERSI E POESIE DISPERSE (OTHERWISE), 1981 Near Tellaro I Have Such Faith in You My Insomnia A Malady I Dont Have Much Faith It Doesnt Take a Long Time NOTES