Cuttlefish bones : 1920-1927
/ Eugenio Montale ; translated, with preface and commentary, by William Arrowsmith
- New York : W.W. Norton , 1992
- 269 p. ; 25 cm.
Cuttlefish bones (Ossi di eppia) appeared in 1925, when Montale was twenty-nine. Music, not poetry was Montale's early passion.