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[We’re all going to hell in a while] by Patrizia Cavalli

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12 November 2025

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[We’re all going to hell in a while]
Patrizia Cavalli
Translated by Gini Alhadeff

We’re all going to hell in a while.
But meanwhile
summer’s over.
So come on now, to the couch!
The couch! The Couch!

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This poem appeared in My Poems Won't Change The World by Patrizia Cavalli, published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2018. (Available on: Amazon • Bookshop)

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“‘Two hours ago I fell in love
and trembled, and tremble still,
and haven’t a clue whom I should tell’

From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and – always, and above all – love. This volume is the first substantial gathering of the best of Patrizia Cavalli’s work from her first six collections, from 1974 to 2006, translated by a selection of renowned poets. By turns thoughtful and sly, sensual and comic, charismatic and profound, these are works perfectly attuned to the pleasures and pains of everyday life and love.” (Source)

ABOUT PATRIZIA CAVALLI

Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli was born in Todi, a municipality of the province of Perugia in central Italy, and lives in Rome. She is the author of many poetry collections, including Con passi giapponesi (2019), My Poems Won’t Change the World: Selected Poems (2013), Datura (2013), Flighty Matters (2012), Pigre divinità e pigra sorte (2006), Sempre aperto teatro (1999), and L’io singolare proprio mio (1992). Cavalli has also published translations of William

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