Montale: Poems - Eugenio Montale was "always trying to get

was "always trying to get to the bottom of the human imbroglio

Following years of brutal tyranny and poverty

After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not

watched over by the bronze statue of Peter the Great

Translator: Lisa C

Montale: Poems - Eugenio Montale was "always trying to getMontale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion and metaphor but at the same time are densely studded with concrete images that keep his complex musings firmly tethered to the world. Montale's