Satura
These are poems whose reductions and sacrifices define a new lyric art.
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Satura, Montale's fourth collection of poems, experiments with dialogue, journalistic notation, commentary, and aphorism, and presses Italian literary language into terrain it has never touched before.Library JournalA 1975 Nobel prize winner and one of Italy's modern masters, Montale (1896-1981) described Satura (1971), his fourth book of poems, as "diaristic and spontaneous." It is a collage of letters (both alphabet and correspondence), voices from "the cave of memory" that provide elusive, vivid glimpses of Montale's life. With thoughtful exploration of ideas and sensuous immediacy, this complex sequence of poems probes personal "time zones" for unseen realities, everything "outside the existible." Drawing images from the "present, abounding" on a quest for humanity, he wanders a great river of imagination. Readers are privileged to go along on his Dantesque journey to "the timeless moment/ that lives where reasons die." The "divine" is never far from these inspired poems, which are saturated with compassion. This bilingual edition provides explanatory notes that William Arrowsmith had completed before he died in 1992 -- Frank Allen, North Hampton Community College, Tannersville, Pennsylvania
Editor's NotexiPrefacexiiiMy You1Thrust and Parry I5I."Arsenio" (she writes me)5II.Barely out of adolescence5Xenia I111.Dear little insect132.Minus glasses and antennae133.At the St. James in Paris134.We'd worked out a whistle155.I've never figured out156.You never thought of leaving your mark157.Self-pity158.Your speech so halting and tactless179.Listening1710."Did she pray?"1711.The memory of your tears1712.Spring1713.Your brother died young1914.They say my poetry19Xenia II211.For you death didn't matter...232.You often ... recalled Mr. Cap...233.For weeks we mourned...254.Cunningly...255.Your arm in mine...256.The wine peddler poured...277."I've never been certain..."278."And Paradise?..."279.Nuns and widows...2710.After long searching...2711.Surfacing from an infinity of time...2912.Hawks...2913.In my room I hung the daguerreotype...3114.The flood has drowned...31Staura I33Hierarchies35Deconfiture...37History39I.History isn't flexible...39II.So history is not...41In the Showcase43The Rasp45The Death of God47To a Modern Jesuit49In Smoke51Gotterdammerung53Tapped Telephone55Poetry57I.The agonizing question...57II.Poetry...57Rhymes59Dialogue61Fanfare63Satura II69Letter71Non-Magical Realism75It's Raining79Parting Shots83Le Revenant85Nothing Serious87Time and Times89I spy a bird...91La Belle Dame Sans Merci93Waiting95Thrust and Parry II97I."Solipsism isn't your forte..."97II.Transparent as gossamer...97Here and There103What mortar bonds...105I feel remorse...109Auf Wiedersehen111Heaven and Earth113A Month among Children115On the Ground Floor119Late at Night121Stuttering123Thrust and Parry III125I."I went back to see..."125II.All I remember...125It's Absurd Believing131Words133Year's End: 1968137Divinity in Disguise139The Black Angel143The Euphrates147The Arno at Rovezzano149We Went...151Groping153Easter without Weekend155Men Who Turn Back157Ex Voto159I Came into the World...163Before the Trip165The Seasons167After a Flight171There were birches...171Your gait isn't priestlike...171If you'd been ravished...173My road made...173While I think of you...175When we reached Sant' Anna...175Slow at accepting neologism...177I can't breathe when you're not here...177Piropo, in Conclusion179Two Venetian Sequences181I.From the windows...181II.Farfarella, the gabby doorman...183The Archive185Down Below187Without Safe-Conduct189Genius191Diachronics193Sounds195The Notary197He who saves the world...199January 1st201Rebecca205In Silence207Lights and Colors209The Strasbourg cricket drilling away...211The Other213Notes214
\ Library JournalA 1975 Nobel prize winner and one of Italy's modern masters, Montale (1896-1981) described Satura (1971), his fourth book of poems, as "diaristic and spontaneous." It is a collage of letters (both alphabet and correspondence), voices from "the cave of memory" that provide elusive, vivid glimpses of Montale's life. With thoughtful exploration of ideas and sensuous immediacy, this complex sequence of poems probes personal "time zones" for unseen realities, everything "outside the existible." Drawing images from the "present, abounding" on a quest for humanity, he wanders a great river of imagination. Readers are privileged to go along on his Dantesque journey to "the timeless moment/ that lives where reasons die." The "divine" is never far from these inspired poems, which are saturated with compassion. This bilingual edition provides explanatory notes that William Arrowsmith had completed before he died in 1992 -- Frank Allen, North Hampton Community College, Tannersville, Pennsylvania\ \
