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A quarter-century after its first appearance, Satura remains so canny, and so tuned in to the Zeitgeist, that it could have been written yesterday. The nomenclature of the electronic age may have changed, for example, but that doesn't keep us from responding to Montale's witty and rueful ambivalence about technological progress in "Late at Night": "There's no conversing with shades / on the telephone. / No loudspeaker or mike boom / appears in our mute dialogues." The volume also contains "Xenia," one of the most painful, incisive, and moving poems ever written about married love. Montale addressed his earlier books to the Petrarchan figure of "Clizia"--a composite of an ideal woman and a real one, the American scholar Irma Brandeis. Here, in "Xenia," he addresses his dead wife, Mosca:
Your arm in mine, I've descended a million stairs at least,Elsewhere in Satura the aging modernist lets his guard down, addressing the reader in a more offhand and humorous manner. And in poems such as "Gotterdammerung" or "Non-Magical Realism," Montale satirizes the absurd proliferation of ideologies that were supposed to solve the problems of the era, and which accomplished little more than our own, contemporary panaceas: "Twilight began when man thought / himself of greater dignity than moles or crickets." --Mark Rudman
and now that you're not here, a void yawns at every step.
Even so our long journey was brief.
I'm still en route, with no further need
of reservations, connections, ruses,
the constant contempt of those who think reality
is what one sees.
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