Word: quasimodos
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Recently both poets collaborated on translations of Quasimodo, the recent Nobel Prize winner. The free reading will be preceded by recorded classical music and followed by informal discussions with the writers John Holmes, professor of English at Tufts University and Director of the Poetry Workshop, will introduce the poets...
...Because Quasimodo is a longtime fellow traveler, the pro-Communist Paese Sera cheered "a just and happy decision...
...Poet Quasimodo, 58, does not take it lightly that his countrymen rank him so modestly. A professor of literature (Milan Academy of Music), with children in their 20s and a mistress who is their contemporary, he makes enemies easily and does not easily forget them. Having long since recovered from his first silence about the Nobel Prize, he now sees it as a victory in a battle in which he "fought alone'' while "my adversaries, that is, the other candidates, had great forces." In this selection from his work, U.S. readers now have a chance to inspect...
...That Quasimodo is a poet can hardly be doubted. He can prove it in a three-liner about man's essential loneliness...
...question is, does he pack enough poetic dynamite to please the shade of a Nobel? Giving him the highest possible marks and allowing for the poet's most destructive enemy-translation-the answer is still no. Quasimodo does not often descend to the banalities of To the New Moon, first published in a Communist paper in celebration of Russia's Sputnik. Mostly he pays in recognizable poet's coin. His world is shrouded in melancholy, in mournful contemplation of man's fate. "Give me sorrow daily bread," and, doubtfully hoping, "perhaps the heart is left...