Title: One of the 20th Century's truly great poets
Product review: This edition is identical to the Carcanet edition, which I also have, except that this edition was the original; the spacing on the page is better and the margins are more generous. This is the more attractive book generally with a slightly more appealing cover too. Either way however, Pavese is exceptional and these are exceptionally good translations. They seem to me to be definitive. Reading some of the poems is like watching a Visconti movie, Rocco and His Brothers or something like that. Pavese allows you to completely enter the time he is writing about and to see its people. The book's later sections contain Pavese's distillations of his poetic sensibility; quite breathtaking.
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