Phrases and Passages of a Salutary Song

Résumé du livre

The most prominent voice in Italian poetry after Eugenio Montale, generally considered Italy's greatest living poet and one of the most outstanding literary figures of this century, Mario Luzi returns with this remarkable book of verse five years after the publication of For the Baptism of Our Fragments. 'The previous book, ' Luzi wrote recently, 'has been read as a sign of conciliation, but it was traumatized by violence. The latest one, Phrases and Passages, is perhaps more directed toward an after, or something inward, as for instance the world of nature, the universe with its laws and its codes that sometimes speak to us.