{"product_id":"late-montale-isbn-9781681378374","title":"Late Montale","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Nobel laureate's later poetry, perfect for existing fans of the Italian master and the uninitiated alike. Now in a sparkling new translation for English-language audiences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLate Montale\u003c\/i\u003e is a generous selection of the poems that the Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale wrote in the last decade of his life, including many drawn from notebooks he entrusted to his housekeeper, which appear here in English for the first time. In new translations by the American poet George Bradley that carry over all the wit and lucidity of the originals, each poem takes on a fresh immediacy. Together, they form an ideal introduction for readers unfamiliar with these late works, and for readers who have long admired them, a sparkling reminder of their subtle art of disillusion and surprise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bilingual edition includes the original Italian versions of each poem.“With \u003ci\u003eLate Montale\u003c\/i\u003e the distinguished poet George Bradley has  given us a Montale in English most of us hardly knew. In selecting and  translating scores of poems from the four collections published in the  last decade of Montale’s life, along with dozens of previously  untranslated poems drawn from notebooks the Nobel laureate entrusted to  his housekeeper, Bradley urges us to focus on the work the poet’s old  age. These translations, printed with the meticulously edited Italian  texts \u003ci\u003een face\u003c\/i\u003e, are marvels of lucidity and subtle music in which  precision is suffused with a rare tenderness of attention. The volume  includes Bradley’s succinct but copious notes clarifying many of the  allusions in the poems. And there are many masterpieces here, riches of  meditation, at times caustic and satirical, at others grave and  quizzical. For all its unavoidable melancholy, Montale’s late work  pulses with life, and Bradley captures the underlying exuberance to  perfection. Montale’s late poems are ‘direct and conversational, the  work of an older man soaked in reflection and second thoughts,’ as  Bradley notes in his elegant Foreword; but they are no less moving and  indeed no less thrilling for that.” —Eric Ormsby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Montale once quipped that the early poems ‘were written in a  tailcoat’ and the late poems ‘in pajamas,’ an image that goes a long way  toward conveying the casual, relaxed mood of \u003ci\u003eLate Montale\u003c\/i\u003e.  George Bradley’s versions feel as comfortable in their English as the  originals do in their Italian, and his generous selection and discerning  introduction and notes offer Anglophone readers their best chance yet  to discover the many quiet pleasures of late Montale.” —Geoffrey Brock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “With his gentle wit and rigorous precision, Mr. Bradley is the ideal  medium for these poignant poems of Montale’s late maturity. He has done  the anglophone reader a great service.” —Daniel Mark Epstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “George Bradley has found the perfect, acerbic tone for these late  poems and drafts of Montale, some never seen before in English. In old  age, Montale crafted an art of radical disillusionment, a world of smoke  and ashes in which ‘the children of those children will have \/ nothing  left to learn \/ nothing to lose.’ Bradley has importantly enlarged our  understanding of this important and incorruptible poet.” —Rosanna Warren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[George Bradley] does a superb job not only clarifying most of Montale’s typically wide-ranging allusions but also, more importantly, in conveying the at times very odd tone the poet adopted in these later poems.” —Steve Donoghue, \u003ci\u003eOpen Letters Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugenio Montale\u003c\/b\u003e (1896–1981) was a poet, prose writer, and translator. Born in Genoa, he originally trained as an opera singer and, though he wrote poems as a teenager, turned to poetry more seriously following his military service during World War I and the death of his vocal instructor. Though he only published five collections of poetry in his first fifty years as a writer, he became extremely prolific in his later years, publishing over twenty works, poetry and prose, in his lifetime. He died in Milan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Bradley\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, editor, and fiction writer. Born in Roslyn, New York, Bradley's poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eTerms to Be Met\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, \u003ci\u003eOf the Knowledge of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Fetched Down \u003c\/i\u003e(1996), \u003ci\u003eSome Assembly Required\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), and \u003ci\u003eA Few of Her Secrets \u003c\/i\u003e(2011). He lives in Connecticut.","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302768398565,"sku":"NP9781681378374","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681378374.jpg?v=1767731185","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/late-montale-isbn-9781681378374","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}