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Subject: PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO (1922-1975)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EVENING AT OSTIA (IN MEMORY OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI), by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When evening came, the red flowers were watered
Last Line: So if he cried out, from this his last wilderness, %there was no one to hear
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


FOR PASOLINI, by HILDA MORLEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pier paolo pasolini, / I've tried to
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


FOR PASOLINI, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pier paolo pasolini, %I've tried to
Last Line: A body staring, %the deafened face
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


TO PASOLINI: 1. AT ITALO'S, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the visible city, the heart
Last Line: Italo turns to me and says, every night of %his life...He spent out in the wilderness
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


TO PASOLINI: 2. OSTIA, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The orphans of the heart must turn to thee
Last Line: The sky streaks with violet veins, then blue. %mama. Mama. They are killing me...
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


TO PASOLINI: 3. 1984, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night at dinner at vecchia roma
Last Line: Last night had been november the second, %the ninth anniversary of your death
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


TO PASOLINI: 4. UNA VITA VIOLENTA (1955), by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many children in only one bed
Last Line: So many to save from the tiber's cold bed - %then god divides: these to jail, these dead
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


TO PASOLINI: 5. THE ART OF ARGUMENT, THE ARGUMENT OF ART, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before our lunch, lovely g tries to explain
Last Line: We argue about really everything we think - %I think it's how we learn what we believe
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


TO PASOLINI: 6. WINTER SUN, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's mid-december in rome, yet the sun's
Last Line: That's what you said. Pier paolo, whose %love are we so terrified to lose?
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


TO PASOLINI: 7. HOTEL OF ASH, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hotel room is tawdry, nondescript;
Last Line: What better place to die than near the sea? %which coins still left to spill? Which spent?
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975)


TO PASOLINI: 8. LOVE FOR THE DRAGON, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For pasolini, the question was, each day:
Last Line: As pasolini wished to, the child of this letter
Subject(s): Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922-1975); Conduct Of Life