Roman Poems Comic Timing

Roman Poems Comic TimingPier Paolo Pasolini The Italian film maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poetthe 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.

fascinated by his wings

charting what it means to grow up in a family divided by geography

Helge Torvund's Seriously Well is a book-length poem that explores the characteristics and limits of poetic incantation in relation to memory and illness

and extensive commentary

Brandon Shimoda

Willem Jan van Otten

Notley's observations are original

as Thénon writes

' A dual-language edition

the war on drugs

and exists alongside Inger Christensen’s alphabet

sinuous between the structured palate and the muscular tongue