Roman poems

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Frill) is at the center of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno. 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. He was murdered in 1975. Zusammenfassung Life on the outskirts of modern Rome, seen as an inferno.

Product details

• Authors: Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Assisted by: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Photographs), Francesca Valente (Photographs), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Translation), F. Valente (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1986
• EAN: 9780872861879
• ISBN: 978-0-87286-187-9
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 160 mm x 12 mm
• Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series; Pocket Poets Series; Pocket Poets; Pocket Poets Series; City Lights Pocket Poets Series; Pocket Poets
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama