Disaffections Complete Poems

Name: Disaffections Complete Poems
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ISBN: 9781556591747

ISBN-10: 1556591748

ISBN-13: 9781556591747

Edition: 2002

Authors: Cesare. Pavese, Geoffrey Brock

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Cesare Pavese was one of Italy's great post-war writers. His poetry was revolutionary-both artistically and politically-rejecting the verbal and philosophical constraints of tradition and utilizing direct, colloquial language. His subjects were peasants, hobos, and prostitutes, and this bilingual volume includes all the poetry Pavese ever published, including work originally deleted by Fascist censors. A landmark volume. Cesare Pavese (1908-50) was a novelist, poet, and translator and a major literary figure in post-war Italy. He brought American influence to Italian literature through his translations. Pavese's flight from the Fascists and subsequent confinement were reflected in his…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298

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Introduction: Walking with Pavese



Work's Tiring (1936)


South Seas


Ancestors


Landscape (1)


Displaced People


Deola Thinking


Street Song


Two Cigarettes


Idleness


Landholders


Landscape (II)


Landscape (III)


A Season


Dina Thinking


Betrayal


Passion for Solitude


The Billy-Goat God


Time Passes


Grappa in September


Atlantic Oil


City in the Country


People Who Don't Understand


House under Construction


Ancient Civilization


Bad Company


Nocturnal Pleasures


Ballet


Fatherhood (I)


Ancient Discipline


Indiscipline


Landscape (V)


Discipline


Green Wood


Revolt


Outside


Work's Tiring (II)


Portrait of the Author


Mediterraneans


Sad Supper


Landscape (IV)


Motherhood


A Generation


Ulysses


Atavism


Affairs


Passionate Women


August Moon


Burnt Lands


Poggio Reale


Landscape (VI)



Work's Tiring (1943)


The Widow's Son


People Who've Been There


The Night


Meeting


Revelation


Morning


Summer (I)


Nocturne


Agony


Landscape (VII)


Tolerance


The Country Whore


Afterwards


Sand-Diggers' Twilight


The Wagoner


A Memory


The Voice


The Boatman's Wife


The Drunk Old Woman


Landscape (VIII)


Smokers of Paper


Words from Confinement


Myth


Paradise above the Roofs


Simplicity


Instinct


Fatherhood (II)


Morning Star over Calabria



Poems of Disaffection


Words for a Girlfriend


The Schoolmistresses


Fallen Women


The Blues Blues


Song


Sad Wine (I)


The Boy Who Was in Me


Indian Summer


Work's Tiring (I)


The Unconvinced


Imagination's End


Jealousy (I)


Sad Wine (II)


Creation


Reigning Peace


Other Days


Poetics


Alter Ego


Sketch of a Landscape


Deola's Return


Habits


Summer (II)


Dream


Sleeping Friend


Indifference


Jealousy (II)


Awakening


Landscape (IX)


Two


The House



Last Blues


Earth and Death


"Red earth black earth"


"You are like a land"


"You are also hill"


"Your face is sculpted stone"


"You do not know the hills"


"Your gaze is brine and earth"


"You always come from the sea"


"And then we cowards"


"You are earth and death"


Two Poems for T.


"The plants of the lake"


"You also are love"


Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes


To C. from C.


In the Morning You Always Come Back


"You have a blood, a breath"


"Death will come and will have your eyes"


You, Wind of March


I Will Pass through Piazza di Spagna


"The mornings pass clear"


The Night You Slept


The Cats Will Know


Last Blues, to Be Read Some Day


Notes on the Text


About the Author


About the Translator


Index of English Titles


Index of Italian Titles