The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini Toxicon and Arachne

The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini Toxicon and ArachnePier Paolo Pasolini Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary worksArabian Nights, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales among them. What most people are not aware of is that he was primarily a poet, publishing nineteen books of poems during his lifetime, as well as a visual artist, novelist, playwright, and journalist. Half a dozen of these books have been

Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints

Tree Spirits Grass Spirits serves as what we might call a phyto-autobiography: a recounting of one's life through the logic of flora

the resonant frequencies of buildings

Samuel Beckett

Spoken word is een ware performance

especially the lyrics and sonnets of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans

reconciliation

as the work of our shared subjects in perceiving and projecting pasts

and destruction

maar om het te verdiepen

divine gender expression

environmental destruction