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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Di Michele, Mary, 1949-

The flower of youth : Pier Paolo Pasolini poems / Mary di Michele.

ISBN 978-1-77041-048-0

Also issued as: 978-1-77090-107-0 (PDF); 978-1-77090-106-3 (ePUB)

1. Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975—Poetry. I. Title.

PS8557.I55F66 2011 C811’.54 C2011-902944-8

Editor for the press: Michael Holmes / a misFit book

Cover and text design: Tania Craan

Cover photo: “Basilica in the Mist,” 1957, courtesy Elio Ciol

Typesetting: Mary Bowness

The publication of The Flower of Youth has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada, by the Ontario Arts Council, by the Government of Ontario through Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit, by the OMDC Book Fund, an initiative of the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.