Roman Poems rebecca tamas ” In this Nion Editions

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

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

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

Roman Poems rebecca tamas ” In this Nion EditionsPier 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.