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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In Danger reveals the literary life of internationally renowned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>In Danger</em> is the first anthology in English devoted to the political and literary essays of Pier Paolo Pasolini, with a generous selection of his poetry. Against the backdrop of post-war Italy, and through the mid-'70s, Pasolini's writings provide a fascinating portrait of a Europe in which fascists and communists violently clashed for power and where journalists ran great risks. The controversial and openly gay Pasolini was murdered at the age of fifty-three; <em>In Danger</em> includes his final interview, conducted hours before his death.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>[Pasolini's] moral passion, analytical intelligence, and the stark beauty of his work make him one of the giants of Italian literature.--<em>Village Voice</em></p><p>Patriotic poetry usually comes out of a right-wing tradition and is nationalistic, but Pasolini's great originality was to be a citizen-poet of the left . . . He wept over the ruins of Italy but without a hint of rhetoric.--Alberto Moravia</p><p>In an era when Italy produced a bumper crop of difficult, passionate artists, he may have been the . . . most prodigiously talented.--A. O. Scott</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WW2 Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual and filmmaker. Controversial and openly homosexual, Pasolini was brutally murdered at the age of 53. Editor Jack Hirschman is an internationally-renowned poet and translator. A former poet-laureate of San Francisco, and editor of The Artaud Anthology, Hirschman has written many books, including <em>Front Lines: Selected Poems</em>, <em>All That's Left</em> and his 900-page masterwork, <em>The Arcanes</em>.</p>

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