“All the richness of life is in the memories we forget,” wrote Cesare Pavese. This wealth is preserved and cherished in his poetry, inviting us to share it. His treasures are childhood images, youthful stirrings, desperate loves, hopes, disappointments, the foggy landscapes of northern Italy, the river, the hill, death: human memories, and therefore eternal.

In the school of “hermetic” poetry that dominates Italian letters, with prominent names such as Ungaretti, Montale, and Quasimodo (the three Nobel laureates of Italy), Pavese - as significant as a poet as he is as a prose writer - presents a poetry that is completely different: its simple and robust everyday language, with its broad narrative rhythms, opens paths and truly approaches a suffering, rich, and vibrant world.

This bilingual edition includes the poetry collections of Cesare Pavese "Work Stinks" and "Death Will Come and It Will Have Your Eyes," as well as his essay "The Art of the Poet" and his "Final Diary Notes" before his suicide.