Selected Poems
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Montale's 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.
Introductionixfrom Cuttlefish Bones (Ossi Di Seppia), 1920-27At the Threshold3The Lemons4Falsetto6Almost a Fantasia8Wind and Flags9Don't Ask Us for the Word10To Spend the Afternoon11I Think about Your Smile12Bring Me the Sunflower13Again and Again I Have Seen Life's Evil14Glory of Expanded Noon15Maybe One Morning16The Well's Pulley Creaks17Mediterranean18Arsenio25House by the Sea27The Dead29Delta31from Occasions (Le Occasioni), 1928-39The Balcony35Lindau36Bagni di Lucca37Another Moon Effect38Near Vienna39To Liuba, Leaving40Dora Markus41Motets44The Customs Hut52Low Tide53Summer54Eastbourne55Boats on the Marne57News from Mount Amiata59from The Storm & Other Poems (La Bufera e Altro), 1940-54The Storm63Seaside Walk64On a Letter Never Written65In Sleep66Indian Serenade67Fiesole Window68The Red Lily69To My Mother70Florentine Madrigals71Ballad Written in a Clinic72Two in the Twilight74Where the Tennis Court Was...76Visit to Fadin78Towards Siena80On the Greve81The Black Trout82Towards Finisterre83Syria84Winter Light85Iris86In the Greenhouse88In the Park89The Kitchen Garden90Beach at Versilia92Hitler Spring94Voice That Came with the Coots96The Eel98Three Private Madrigals99Anniversary101Little Testament102The Prisoner's Dream103from Satura, 1962-70Xenia, I107Xenia, II111La Belle Dame Sans Merci117After a Flight118Down There123from Altri Versi e Poesie Disperse (Otherwise), 1981Near Tellaro127I Have Such Faith in You128My Insomnia129A Malady130I Don't Have Much Faith131It Doesn't Take a Long Time132Notes133
