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Title: Collected Poems 1920-1954 : Bilingual Edition by Eugenio Montale, Jonathan Galassi ISBN: 0-374-52625-7 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 30 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Read the translations by Arrowsmith instead
Comment: Eugenio Montale is my favourite poet, and before I was able to read him in the original Italian I read the extant English translations by Jonathan Galassi and William Arrowsmith. Looking back, I would wholeheartedly recommend Arrowsmith's translations about Galassi's.
Galassi's translations are accurate as far as the meaning goes, but do not sufficiently mirror the sound of Montale's brilliant Italian, and in several poems they do not translate the mood, the essence of Montale's poetic vision. Arrowsmith's translations have always seemed wonderful to me because they capture Montale's emotion (especially the sly irony of SATURA) and remain faithful to the sound of the Italian. If one wishes to read Montale's poems in English, I would highly suggest you purchase William Arrowsmith's translations. Arrowsmith translated not only Montale's first three books as Galassi only did, but also his retrospective SATURA, some of his best poetry.
This edition by Galassi does warrant recognition, however, for one thing. His attached essay, "Reading Montale," does a great deal for the unfamiliar reader to explain the nature of Montale's "Clizia" mythos, and his analysis of the cicada symbol teaches the reader to appreciate Montale's complex symbolism.
Rating: 5
Summary: A lyrical body of work by a truly gifted poet.
Comment: Ably translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi, this revised bilingual edition of Eugenio Montale's Collected Poems 1920-1954 brings the lyrical Italian poet's work to a new generation of readers. Montale is a gifted poet who work is deeply beautiful as it confronts the dilemmas of modern history, philosophy, and faith. Day And Night: A floating feather, too, can sketch your image/or the sunbeam playing hied-and-seek/in the furniture, rebounding off/a baby's mirror or the roofs. Above the walls/wisps of steam draw out the poplars' spires/and the knifegrinder's parrot down below/fans his feathers on his perch. And then the hazy night/in the little square, and footsteps, and always/this painful effort to sink under/to re-emerge the same for centuries, or seconds,/by ghosts who can't win back the light of your eyes/inside the incandescent cave -- and still/the same shouts and long wailing on the veranda/if suddenly the shot rings out/that reddens your throat and shears/your wings. O perilous harbinger of dawn,/and the cloisters and the hospitals awake/to a resounding chorus of horns...
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Title: Satura: 1962-1970 by Eugenio Montale, William Arrowsmith, Rosanna Warren ISBN: 0393319776 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Cuttlefish Bones (1920-1927) by Eugenio Montale, William Arrowsmith ISBN: 0393311716 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Giuseppe Ungaretti, Andrew Frisardi ISBN: 0374260753 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 02 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Collected Poems: Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter; Introduction by Frank Bidart by Robert Lowell, Frank Bidart, David Gewanter ISBN: 0374126178 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: My Secret Book by Francesco Petrarch, Francis Petrarch, J. G. Nichols, Germaine Greer ISBN: 1843910268 Publisher: Hesperus Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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