The Flower of Youth: The Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems

by Mary Di Michele

The poems in The Flower of Youth depict the coming of age and into sexual difference of the great writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern Italy. Unlike his younger brother, Guido, who took up arms to fight in the resistance, Pasolini chose to help his mother set up a school for the boys, mostly sons of farmers, too young to fight or be conscripted. The situation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770410481
• ISBN13: 9781770410480
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"