In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis: & Other Poems

Mario Luzi is the foremost Italian poet of his generation. He ranks first as an interpreter of life. He owes much to ancestral ties and to the Tuscan landscape of his youth and middle years. He is at home with such rational philosophers as Bertrand Russell and Adorno (Theodor Wiesengrund). Essentially, he is an apolitical humanist. Here are presented his classic "In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis," along with a selection of other of his poems, translated into English by I. L. Salomon.