A wonderful book just publish ...

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 27, 2005| Author: Robert Pinsky | Copyright information

A wonderful book just published by Handsel Books is Montale in English, an anthology of translations by many hands. Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) has exerted a continuing, large influence on poetry in English. This book, edited by Harry Thomas, presents the range and depth of the great Italian modernist's attraction for those who write in English.

Poetry in translation has had an especially great appeal for American poets and readers in the decades since the deaths of Eliot, Pound, Stev...

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