I had not heard of Campana until I saw this book while browsing recently at City Lights. His work is fantastic in the truest sense of the work, calling to mind not only the obvious comparisons of Lorca and his professed influence Whitman, but also his contemporary in Hungary, Attila Jozsef, and certainly Leopardi as well. I am somewhat nervous about some liberties that appear to have been taken with the translation (another is available, by Charles Wright, which I have not seen), but the poems are forceful enough to bleed through regardless.