Roman Poems rebecca tamas historical narrative

historical narrative

The title poem argues that God was right to make us love cats (and then watch them die)

not a bardlike but a birdlike song […] something like a goldfinch tremolo

Imagine living every day in your nonnative language and becoming estranged from your native tongue

Roman Poems rebecca tamas historical narrativePier 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.