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Article: Pavese's late love poems. (Cesare Pavese)
- Article from:
- The American Poetry Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
- Author:
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As Robert Frost said, there are poems one has read without ever actually reading them. For me, for many years, Cesare Pavese's last sequence, with its cruel, yet altogether heart-stopping title, Verra la morte e avra i tuoi occhi (which I have rendered, "Death Will Come and Look at Me with Your Eyes"), was one of those poems; I began translating it as a way of living my way into it. It. was written a few months before Pavese's suicide in 1950, in the course of a turbulent love affair with an America n movie actress, Constance Dowling, whom Pavese had met in Rome. He was then at the height of his fame as a novelist and a Communist man of letters, though not, as it ...
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