In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncerta
"Virtually incomparable. . . . [Arrowsmith] has quite literally distilled this poetry's essence in order to recompose it with all of its colors, scents, and exquisitely understated potency intact." -
Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is ruled by a brusque economy, and Montale’s is, here, a poetics of magnificent reduction. The poet meditates on the very conditions of his art: language reveals itself to
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.
A first English-language translation of works by the late winner of 1975's Nobel Prize for Literature offers insight into his role in influencing Italian poetry and international Modernism as well as
