The Pasolini BookStacy Szymaszek In the midst of capitalist ruin, The Pasolini Book maps the particular pains of embattled artistic autonomy and the turbulent state of social and political community. The Pasolini Book documents the poet Stacy Szymaszeks engagement with the work of the Italian film director, poet, and political figure Pier Paolo Pasolini alongside her own evolving vocation as civic poet and dissenting subject within an American polis by turns hostile

McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism

after you've been terminated two or three times by Graham

song lyrics and vulgarities

due to poetry

But it is his refusals that animate his legacy with an incandescent rage

and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother

written to Fawwaz Traboulsi

where we are given an intimate insight into Celan's last years

and sentences unravel and reassemble as tangled webs of gold

the others relate more obliquely to her life and legacy

The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer

Shifting the Silence does just that: breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths