Ossos de sípia

The wind that blows into the orchard, the late ray of sunshine gliding from a sky full of blizzards, the clear water accidentally interviewed among the boulders of a sand, the mornings anchored like boats in a harbor, the hour in which the most impassive face is crossed by a raw grimace... Montale, craftsman of detail and conciseness, excellent master of metaphor, suggests in this splendid book, filled with images as exquisite as these, the various forms of the crumbling life, the inconsistency of the world we live in, and the indelible power of memories. And it allows us to discover, at the same time, one of the main sources of the best Italian poetry of modernity.