Umberto Saba's reputation in Italy and Europe has steadily grown since his death in 1957, and today he is positioned alongside Eugenio Montale and Giuseppe Ungaretti as one of the three most important Italian poets of the first half of the twentieth century. Until now, however, English-language readers have had access to only a few examples of ...
Poetry. Bilingual, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Stephen Sartarelli. Poems written between 1900 and 1954, by a lyric poet who "fashioned an art in which the life and the work mirror and sustain each other" (from the Introduction), "Let us leave my life -- dark, oppressive/thing -- to its likeness as that blackened/ vault, ...
This is a collection of largely autobiographical prose pieces by the Italian writer Umberto Saba (1898-1957). This translation won the 1991 Italo Calvino Award and the 1992 PEN American Center Renato Poggioli Translation Award. Saba also wrote the novel "Ernesto".
Essays. Criticism. Memoir. Translated from the Italian with a translator's foreword and notes by Stephen Sartarelli. This odd and engaging volume consists primarily of essays written between 1900 and 1944, in which the Italian poet Umberto Saba writes of himself in the third person, providing a truly fascinating critique of his own work. "As work ...
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