Salvatore Quasimodo

Oboe Sommerso

Hermetic poems of obscured meaning and emotional depth

About the author

Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1959. His early hermetic poetry is collected in Acque e Terre, and his later work responding to World War II shows a more public voice.

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