Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972

Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972

Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is one of the Nobel Prizeâ€“winning poet Eugenio Montaleâ€™s final works, and it reveals the last act of the twentieth-century master to be one of splendid negation.
Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is ruled by a brusque economy, and Montaleâ€™s is, here, a poetics of magnificent reduction. The poet meditates on the very conditions of his art: language reveals itself to be madness, and poetry a broken promise. The Muse has become a scarecrow: â€œShe still has / one sleeve, with which she conducts her scrannel / straw quartet. Itâ€™s the only music I can stand.â€ And yet music it is, and time and time again Montale attains a contrarian grandeur that renews faith in the art he punishes. These poems are dense and dramatic, evasive and erotic and vividly alive.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-12-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393344196

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