Early drafts of some of these poems first appeared in Branch, CVII, jacket, Drunken Boat, Event, Matrix, The Malahat Review, Poetry Quebec, Rhythm, and on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada website.
I would like to thank Roo Borson and Kim Maltman, my first readers of the manuscript for their comments and encouragement. I would also like to thank Concordia University for an internal grant that helped me with the travel and research costs for this book. Special thanks to Gianni Scalia of the University of Bologna, a friend of Pasolini, who not only shared his memories of the man, but also gave me his personal and annotated copy of Nico Naldini’s Pasolini, una vita.
Thank you Michael Holmes for believing in this book, and Tania Craan for her wonderful work on the cover image.