The Flight from Meaning establishes an on-going conversation with the great Italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini, revisiting many questions Pasolini brought to bear on new realities shaped by the post-World War II era. In the wake of nuclear weapons, in the advent of commercial culture and hyper-capitalism, in the ever-expanding financial and class stratification of the Western world, in the presence of continual technological change and the absence of a sacramental presence in Nature, what new-era affirmations have arrived to fill the space an old-world order leaves when it passes? Extending these and other themes into the twenty-first century, the poems in The Flight from Meaning offer personal entry into powerful forces that continue to shape contemporary life.
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