Roman Poems Yasmine Seale Sleeping with the Dictionary

Sleeping with the Dictionary

translated by Urayán Noel

time and place

ecologies of displacement

Night is a Kafkaesque chronicle of the Pinochet era in prose poems that encompass the lyric

Roman Poems Yasmine Seale Sleeping with the DictionaryPier 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.