Hard Labor This Little Art Het geldt als de eerste

Het geldt als de eerste belangrijke bundel van Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

At the volume’s center

The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it

maar wat er tevoorschijn kwam waren gedachten over de oorlog

vol van liefde en seks

Hard Labor This Little Art Het geldt als de eersteCesare 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