Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli
The New Yorker: Poetry
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Love Manages to Subsume the Imperfections
There is a kind of a music the translation captures. Do you think about that when you're reading something like this? And i wonder, like i say, i don't read italian. But i can at least puzzle out the sounds and get a sense of what the poem sounds like. If it didn't have that slightly, its just, um, it's so wonderful. Nd, at's ta great observation. I had not noticed that at all. Love manages to subsume those.
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