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Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a generous selection of his poetry. Against the backdrop of post-war Italy, and through the mid-'70s, Pasolini's writings provide a fascinating portrait of a Europe in which fascists and communists violently clashed for power and where journalists ran great risks. The controversial and openly gay Pasolini was murdered at the age of...

Zu Beginn der sechziger Jahre hat Pasolini in Rom Fuß gefasst, er hat zwei gefeierte Romane veröffentlicht und sich eine neue, flammende Leidenschaft erschlossen, das Kino. Doch der Ort, an dem sich seine Passion, die sozialen und politischen Verhältnisse der Welt festzuhalten, am dringlichsten äußert, ist seine Lyrik. Kompromisslos wirft Pasolini den eigenen Körper in den Kampf, prangert die verlogenen Ideologien der Machthaber an und protestiert gegen die Seelenlosigkeit des Kapitalismus. Zugleich sind seine Gedichte eine Liebeserklärung an den Menschen, an das römische...

"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"

Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American Center

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...

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...