Rosanna Warren

Eugenio Montale

William Arrowsmith

A collection of poems in Italian and English by the 1975 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature reveals an innovative use of dialogue, journalistic language, song, and other techniques. Reprint.

1962-1970

Satura

Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is one of the Nobel Prize–winning poet Eugenio Montale'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

In his analysis of a scene in La notte, for instance, Arrowsmith proposes how the composition of shots expresses the meaning. Noting how the actress portraying a nymphomaniac is framed next to expanses of wall, Arrowsmith writes, "What the nymphomaniac wants to shut out is any knowledge of the blank immensity ... that we see exteriorized as she stands against the absolutely clinical white blankness of the wall, her own emptiness projected as the emptiness around her, threatening her."

The Poet of Images

Antonioni

An English-language translation of works by the late Nobel Prize winner offers insight into his role in influencing Italian poetry and international Modernism, as well as his views on such topics as modernity, fascism, and war.

William Arrowsmith

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