Pier Paolo Pasolini: Poems
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and plays, political and literary criticism, and, above all, poetry. His poems are widely considered the most important contribution to Italian literature since Montale and, along with the work of Brecht and Neruda, represent the most powerful political poetry of the century. This dual-language book presents his major poems as well as an autobiographical essay, which together make for an outstanding introduction to Pasolini's exceptional gifts as a poet.
The Ashes of Gramsci3The Tears of the Excavator25The Religion of My Time57Appendix to the "Religion": A Light101Prayer to My Mother109Reality111The Beautiful Banners139A Desperate Vitality149Southern Dawn179Plan of Future Works183One of the Many Epilogs207Civil Song209Lines from the Testament211The Poetry of the Tradition215Appendix: To the New Reader (1970)221Notes227Translators' Note to the New Edition231
