Written as a kind of historical narrative in verse, the poems in this collection depict the coming of age and sexual awareness of the great Italian writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern Italy. Unlike his younger brother, Guido, who took up arms to fight in the resistance, Pasolini chose to help his mother set up a school for the boys too young to fight or be conscripted. The situation ignited an internal war for the young Pasolini that nearly eclipsed the historical moment: a battle within between his desire for boys and his Catholic faith and culture. In addition to the poems that juxtapose Pasolini’s struggle against the backdrop of political and cultural fascism, the book also includes a prologue and an epilogue that details the author’s pilgrimage to the site and her research into the time that shaped Pasolini as a man and as an artist.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 86)
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- MisFit Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781770410480 9781770901070
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.D498
- LCCN Item number
- F56 2011eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (87 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00233761 (OCoLC)868488373 (CaOOCEL)446774
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Pier Paolo Pasolini poems
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Table of Contents 8
- I | Prologue: The Flower and the Book 10
- Vietato (A Town Called Forbidden) 12
- Quietus 14
- The Pink House, 2004 15
- II | Impure Acts 20
- The Pink House, 1942 23
- Postscript(s) 24
- War Smells Like Shit 26
- The Return 28
- Bicycle Days 30
- La Bella Stagione 31
- The Bombers 32
- Night of the Merry-go-round 34
- Devil Among the Angels 36
- At the Gravel Pit/Without a Word 38
- At Your Service 40
- My First Date 41
- Hidden Corners/The Earth Moves 45
- A Thousand Birds 46
- Hide-and-Go-Seek 47
- The G. Period 48
- The G. Period: The Soundtrack 49
- Colour on Sunday 50
- Sunday Dinner/Olympic Games 51
- Birthday Poem 52
- After Dinner Story 53
- Birthday Dream 54
- Birthday Nightmare 55
- The Dream’s Aftermath 56
- Red Rags Where My Heart Used to Be 57
- Soul and Body 59
- Lessons in Latin 60
- My False Faith 61
- E Se Fosse Vero? 63
- Already Old 65
- All That Sparkles 66
- To the Nightingale Singing in the Elder Grovein the Summer of ’44 68
- The Same Moon 69
- Dancing After the War 70
- June 2, 1946 73
- When I Was Good, Still 74
- III | After Pasolini 76
- ’44–49 The Day of My Death 78
- ’74 The Day of My Death 79
- The Day of His Death, November 1, 1975 80
- IV | Epilogue: The Book 82
- I. Prologue: The Flower and the Book 84
- II. Impure Acts 84
- III. After Pasolini 85
- Sources 87
- Acknowledgements 88
- Back Matter 87
- Back Cover 89
