La insomne felicidad. Antología poética

The figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shines like a flash of lightning in postwar European culture. Poet, essayist, and filmmaker, his fiercely independent intellectual approach allowed him to be a lucid, astute, and compassionate commentator on the Italy of his time. He quickly identified the hydra and fought with its three heads: the lack of social awareness among the humble and vulnerable, the traumatic uprooting that modernity represented for them, and institutionalized lies. 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 Sleepless Happiness, the poet Martín López-Vega offers us an exemplary bilingual anthology that includes the complete works of Gramsci's Ashes (1957), perhaps his most celebrated collection, as well as a representative selection of the rest of his work, both in Friulian and Italian, including fundamental titles such as Poetry in the Form of a Rose and Transhumanizing and Organizing. A happily political poet, Pasolini reminds us that the world does not have to be the way it is. His writing is a passionate X-ray of the mechanisms that drive it and an invitation to change them.