Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian) Paperback Book

Description: Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Life on the outskirts of modern Rome, seen as an inferno. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE Italian CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet-the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of "moral and political unworthiness," Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Friuli) is at the center of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno."From all these refusals, we know what Pasolini stood against-political ideologies of all kinds, the complacency inherent in the established social order, the corruption of the institutions of church and state. If Pasolini could be said to have stood for anything it was for the struggles of Italys working class-both the rural peasants and those barracked in the urban slums at the edges of Italian cities-whose humanity he evoked with great eloquence and nuance. But it is his refusals that animate his legacy with an incandescent rage, a passionate and profound fury that did not, as Zigaina suggests, cry out for death-but for just the opposite." -Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of BooksPier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna. In addition to the films for which he is world famous, he wrote novels, poetry, and social and cultural criticism, and was an accomplished painter. He was murdered in 1975 at Ostia, near Rome. Author Biography Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WW2 Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual and filmmaker. Controversial and openly homosexual, Pasolini was brutally murdered at the age of 53. Lawerence Ferlinghetti is the famous Beat poet and painter who founded City Lights Books in San Francisco. His books include How To Paint Sunlight (poetry) and Love in the Days of Rage (fiction). Long Description The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet--the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of "moral and political unworthiness," Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Friuli) is at the center of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno. "From all these refusals, we know what Pasolini stood against--political ideologies of all kinds, the complacency inherent in the established social order, the corruption of the institutions of church and state. If Pasolini could be said to have stood for anything it was for the struggles of Italys working class--both the rural peasants and those barracked in the urban slums at the edges of Italian cities--whose humanity he evoked with great eloquence and nuance. But it is his refusals that animate his legacy with an incandescent rage, a passionate and profound fury that did not, as Zigaina suggests, cry out for death--but for just the opposite." --Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna. In addition to the films for which he is world famous, he wrote novels, poetry, and social and cultural criticism, and was an accomplished painter. He was murdered in 1975 at Ostia, near Rome. Details ISBN0872861872 Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti Publisher City Lights Books Photographer Francesca Valente ISBN-10 0872861872 ISBN-13 9780872861879 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 851.914 Series Number 41 Imprint City Lights Books Country of Publication United States Translated from Italian Residence US Birth 1922 Death 1975 Pages 96 Translator Lawrence Ferlinghetti Short Title ITA-ROMAN POEMS Language Italian Place of Publication Monroe, OR DOI 10.1604/9780872861879 NZ Release Date 2001-02-15 UK Release Date 2001-02-15 Series City Lights Pocket Poets Series Audience General AU Release Date 2001-01-01 Year 1986 Publication Date 1986-02-13 US Release Date 1986-02-13 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:149873217;

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