PIER PAOLO PASOLINI poem I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST Full TEXT
Pasolini ‘s poems
Pier Paolo Pasolini
I am a force of the Past
( Italian: Io sono una forza del passato )
From book:
Poesia in forma di rosa
Pasolini – Italian poetry
Full text translated into English
Italian literature
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
I am a force of the Past
( Io sono una forza del passato )
Full text translated into English
Pasolini – Italian Poem
I am a force of the Past.
My love lies only in tradition.
I come from the ruins, the churches,
the altarpieces, the villages
abandoned in the Appennines or foothills
of the Alps where my brothers once lived.
I wander like a madman down the Tuscolana,
down the Appia like a dog without a master.
Or I see the twilight, the mornings
over Rome, the Ciociaria, the world,
as the first acts of Posthistory
to which I bear witness, for the privilege
of recording them from the outer edge
of some buried age.
Monstrous is the man
born of a dead woman’s womb.
And I, a foetus now grown, roam about
more modern than any modern man,
in search of brothers no longer alive.
…
..
.
Pier Paolo Pasolini – I am a force of the Past
Original Italian: Io sono una forza del passato
Full text translated into English
(english version by Stephen Sartarelli)
Italian Poem – Italian Literature
Pier Paolo Pasolini Io sono una forza del passato Original Italian Text > here
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure.
Pier Paolo Pasolini remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters, but he is an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts.
His murder prompted an outcry in Italy and its circumstances continue to be a matter of heated debate.
(wikipedia)
Works
Pasolini – Narrative
Ragazzi di vita (The Ragazzi, 1955)
Una vita violenta (A Violent Life, 1959)
Il sogno di una cosa (1962)
Amado Mio—Atti Impuri (1982, originally written in 1948)
Alì dagli occhi azzurri (1965)
Teorema (1968)
Reality (The Poets’ Encyclopedia, 1979)
Petrolio (1992, incomplete)
Poetry – Pasolini
La meglio gioventù (1954)
Le ceneri di Gramsci (1957)
L’usignolo della chiesa cattolica (1958)
La religione del mio tempo (1961)
Poesia in forma di rosa (1964)
Trasumanar e organizzar (1971)
La nuova gioventù (1975)
Roman Poems. Pocket Poets No. 41 (1986)
The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition. (2014)
Essays – Pasolini
Passione e ideologia (1960)
Canzoniere italiano, poesia popolare italiana (1960)
Empirismo eretico (1972)
Lettere luterane (1976)
Le belle bandiere (1977)
Descrizioni di descrizioni (1979)
Il caos (1979)
La pornografia è noiosa (1979)
Scritti corsari (1975)
Lettere (1940–1954) (Letters, 1940–54, 1986)
Theatre – Pasolini
Orgia (1968)
Porcile (1968)
Calderón (1973)
Affabulazione (1977)
Pilade (1977)
Bestia da stile (1977)
Films – Pasolini
(year – in italian – in english)
1961 – Accattone – Accattone
1962 – Mamma Roma – Mamma Roma
1964 – Il vangelo secondo Matteo – The Gospel According to St. Matthe
1966 – Uccellacci e uccellini – The Hawks and the Sparrows
1967 – Edipo re – Oedipus Rex
1968 – Teorema – Theorem
1969 – Porcile – Pigsty
1969 – Medea – Medea
1971 – Il Decameron – The Decameron
1972 – I racconti di Canterbury – The Canterbury Tales
1974 – Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte – A Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights)
1975 – Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma – Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
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