Word: quasimodo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SELECTED WRITINGS OF SALVATORE QUASIMODO (269 pp.)-Edited and translated by Allen Mandelbaum-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
When Italian Poet Salvatore Quasimodo learned last October that he had won the Nobel Prize for literature, friends report that "he paled and fell into shocked silence." Given Quasimodo's widely unheralded poetic output, it was a natural reaction. In the U.S., where only a few academic specialists knew more than a handful of his poems, the news caused acute embarrassment to cocktail-party literati, who were too stunned to improvise knowledgeable chatter. In Sweden the respected newspaper Aftenbladet criticized the Swedish Academy for "rewarding mediocrity," and most Italian critics agreed. One of Quasimodo's detractors spread...
...Because Quasimodo is a longtime fellow traveler, the pro-Communist Paese Sera cheered "a just and happy decision...
After a month's visit to the U.S., Sicily's Red-leaning Poet Salvatore Quasimodo, 58, winner of last year's Nobel Prize for literature, returned home convinced that the U.S. deserves more sympathy than it has ever gotten from him. What surprised Quasimodo most was that, amidst all the U.S'.s material wealth, poets seem to sprout "everywhere."' But he still believes that the U.S. neglects its poets' social security. Said Quasimodo, whose poetry will get its first sizable English rendition in a book that will be published in the U.S. next month...