Cuttlefish Bones (Ossi di seppia)

The true first edition is the original-language Italian: Ossi di seppia, Piero Gobetti Editore, Turin, 1925 — the book serious collectors pursue (its original working title was Rottami). The first complete collection in English is generally taken to be Antonino Mazza's The Bones of Cuttlefish, Mosaic Press (Oakville, Ontario, Canada), 1983; the widely held standard American translation is William Arrowsmith's Cuttlefish Bones (1920-1927), W. W. Norton (New York), 1992 (US trade printing 1993; ISBN 0-393-02803-8). Individual poems reached English earlier — most notably "Arsenio," translated by Mario Praz and published in Eliot's The Criterion in 1928 — but those are periodical appearances, and earlier New Directions/Farnsworth volumes were selections, not a complete Ossi di seppia in English.