Hard Labor Crossing

Hard Labor CrossingCesare Pavese (trans. William Arrowsmith) In the spring of 1935, the young Cesare Pavese was sentenced, for "antifascist activities," to three years of detention in a small seaside village in Calabria. Far away from his familiar life in the city of Turin and forced to rely on his own resources, he began to write poems of tremendous power, in terse lines and unsentimental language, giving voice to country people and hard country lives untainted by the

and The Ordinary (Compline

This fresh

Niedecker writes a poetry of wit and emotion

longing—it’s hard to name a subject relevant to our time that isn’t in this book

'"-- Mónica de la Torre

the author here plays conduit for many beautiful bodies

between private and public

how best might we approach one another

and the compositions of John Cage

Part poetry and part reportage

Persoonlijke statements over onze omgang met de aarde

om in een gelaagd document de vele mogelijke antwoorden op die vraag bloot te leggen