Let me first say what a joy it is to sit down with this book and look at Pavese's poems in Italian. I read the English on the right side and then follow through the Italian on the other side. While my translation skills are not at all great, I do recognize a lot of the words and find myself trying to figure out the grammatical forms. Sigh. I miss speaking Italian. I'll have to study again. Or just run away. Ok, back to the poetry...
When I picked this up I was looking for "unrequited love" poems, because that's what he writes always, apparently, and I've written a few myself lately. His love poems are different though, because they're in third person and he doesn't put himself in in an obvious way...
KB says my Cinque Terre poem is so Pavese, so that's what I'm looking for as I read on...
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