“Andrea Zanzotto is one of the world’s great nature poets, and this beautiful collection makes his poetry and prose amply available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. His work reveals the inextricable attachments between human experience and the physical world, attachments charged with extraordinary emotion.”

Scott Slovic, editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

“Zanzotto emphasizes the importance of place while simultaneously stressing that even the smallest corner of the world is beyond our ultimate understanding. In his poetry there’s a line-by-line beauty and a fundamental humility that, when combined with his complex moral and philosophical vision, leave a reader with a stimulated and enriched heart and an agitated and excited mind.”

Scott Bryson, author of The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry

"Now, in The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: A Bilingual Edition, American readers can get a just sense of [Zanzotto’s ] true range and extraordinary originality. Mr. Barron has provided most of the translations, together with a perceptive introduction and a number of quite lovely illustrations (including several impish portraits of the poet himself), but he has also included translations by other hands, including the earlier versions by [Brian] Swann and [Ruth] Feldman."

Eric Ormsby | The New York Sun

“Given the importance of the chiseling of words operated by Zanzotto in all of his poetical works, the translations acquire utter importance, and they most often succeed

completely in rendering Zanzotto’s experimental wording in all of its muting and translucent opacity…. Showing an attention in the selection of Zanzotto’s works that goes beyond the desire to choose only the poet’s most representative texts and following, rather, a conceptual thread, Barron succeeds in giving us a volume in which the three ever-shifting elements that constitute the basis of Zanzotto’s poetry—landscape, language, and poetic subject—are showcased.”

Federica Santini | Annali d’italianistica

"Translations of [Zanzotto] have tended to be sporadic and difficult to come by. The University of Chicago Press has now produced lavish hardback anthologies...with generous portions, in English and Italian, of all of the manin collections of verse, plus (in English only) selections from their prose wiritings.... Zanzotto deserve[s] to be much better known outside Italy...the translations are always serviceable at at times of high quality."

Peter Hainsworth | Times Literary Supplement

"This massive, handsomely designed, and copiously illustrated volume is the best possible introduction to [Zanzotto’s] work, giving as it does an excellent impression of the scale of his acheivement....Zanzotto is a major voice in world poetry, one that urgently needs to be heard in the current political and social climate (not the least for his profound and consistent engagement with ecological themes). This splendid volume makes that possible."

Choice

"Zanzotto is one of those rare poets who’s grown wilder as he’s gotten older; the poems of his old age are as strange and wacky as ever. . . . For six decades now he has been producing his astonishing verse."

Eric Ormsby | New York Sun

"This inviting volume represents the most complete anthology to date of Zanzotto’s work in English translation, including an ample selection of poems . . . and thirteen prose pieces that present some of the central ideas underpinning the creative project of an author considered to be one of the most original voices operating in Italy today."

Francesca Southerden=Rossi | MLR