In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology

by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jack Hirschman (Editor)

Overview

In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to the political and literary essays of Pier Paolo Pasolini, 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 fifty-three; In Danger includes his final interview, conducted hours before his death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872865075
Publisher:	City Lights Books
Publication date:	08/17/2010
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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. Editor Jack Hirschman is an internationally-renowned poet and translator. A former poet-laureate of San Francisco, and editor of "The Artaud Anthology," Hirschman has written many books, including Front Lines: Selected Poems, All That's Left and his 900-page masterwork, The Arcanes.

Editorial Reviews

"[Pasolini's] moral passion, analytical intelligence, and the stark beauty of his work make him one of the giants of Italian literature."—Village Voice

"Patriotic poetry usually comes out of a right-wing tradition and is nationalistic, but Pasolini's great originality was to be a citizen-poet of the left . . . He wept over the ruins of Italy but without a hint of rhetoric."—Alberto Moravia

"In an era when Italy produced a bumper crop of difficult, passionate artists, he may have been the . . . most prodigiously talented."—A. O. Scott

From the Publisher

"Pasolini writes with touching vulnerability of his youth, his mother, and his sex life, as well as the more universal themes of loneliness, aging, anger, disappointment, and fear. At the same time, concerns with poverty, revolution, and the class struggle are pervasive. . . . Semiotics and philosophical speculation are regularly intertwined with political thought." --(Mark Gustafson )

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