La insomne felicidad

The figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shines like lightning in post-war European culture. A poet, essayist, and filmmaker, his freewheeling intellectual attitude enabled him to be a lucid, astute, and compassionate commentator on the Italy of his day. He very soon identified the hydra and fought with its three heads: the lack of social awareness of the humble and vulnerable, the traumatic uprooting that modernity was for them, and the institutionalized lie. As he himself stated, 'in times of universal lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'. For Pasolini, poetry was not only the root and center of his creative project, but also an almost dizzying exercise in renewal and self-criticism. With La insomne ??feliz, the poet Martín López-Vega offers us an exemplary bilingual anthology that includes the entirety of Gramsci's Ashes (1957), perhaps his most celebrated collection of poems, as well as a representative selection of the rest of his work, both in Friulian as in Italian, including fundamental titles such as Poesia en forma de rosa or Transhumanar y organized.