Eugenio Montale
MOTTETTI / MOTETS translated by Alan Tucker
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Lo sai: debbo riperderti e non posso.
Paese di ferrame e alberature E l'inferno è certo.
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You know: I'm losing you and it's impossible.
titanium steel mastheads ring their futile bells And hell is certain
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NOTE: Sottoripa (in the original) is a Roman site near Genoa. Weymouth's sea wall is a reasonable localisation. Galassi (p517-8) notes that Eastbourne, another poem assumed to be addressed to Clizia, dating from 1933/35, and apparently recording a bank-holiday Montale spent on the English south coast, may be intended to be read by her as being set in New England.
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