{"product_id":"xenia-by-eugenio-montale-signed-by-the-author-and-translator","title":"XENIA, by Eugenio Montale (SIGNED by the author and translator)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Sparrow Press, 1970, First American edition of 300 copies, 42 pp., Hardcover with acetate dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and translator)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn its literary impact, Montale's\u003cem\u003e Xenia\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1966 in an edition of just 50 copies, might be described as Italy's \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e. This now-famous sequence came in profound response to the death, in 1963, of his beloved wife whom he nicknamed Mosca, a woman so short-sighted as to have reputedly apologised when bumping into a mirror. At the end of the Xenia sequence, Montale allegorises the story of his Florentine ark of precious artefacts overwhelmed in the 1966 flood of the Arno. Those objects resurface in the poem as a metaphor for a loss that is as personal as it is historical. Montale's personal past with Mosca has been submerged, but also Europe's high literary culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Familiar Trees","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786886840606,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0308\/9956\/8776\/files\/IMG_9022_9b94265c-224a-4f91-9044-b9eaca522488.jpg?v=1777318690","url":"https:\/\/familiartrees.com\/products\/xenia-by-eugenio-montale-signed-by-the-author-and-translator","provider":"Familiar Trees","version":"1.0","type":"link"}