Posthumous Diary/Diario Postumo

Eugenio Montale's Posthumous Diary, published here for the very first time in an English edition, is a collection of brief poems to a woman named Annalisa Cima that, when published after his death, created a cause celebre in Italy, a firestorm of proportions unprecedented in the annals of modern Italian literature, as translator Jonathan Galassi notes in his introduction. The unexpected major poet of Anglo-American Modernism, as he was called by Eliot Weinberger, gives us poems in this volume that deal with death & solitude, but also with things that unify us & shield us from despair: deep friendship & the consolations of art. Eugenio Montale was the winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. Jonathan Galassi is Editor-in-Chief of Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, author of North Street: Poems, & translator of Collected Poems 1920-1954, by Eugenio Montale.Montale, Eugenio is the author of 'Posthumous Diary/Diario Postumo' with ISBN 9781885586223 and ISBN 1885586221.