SOURCE: An Interview with Pier Pasolini, in Stanford Italian Review, Vol. II, No. 2, Fall, 1982, pp. 46-8.

In the following interview, originally published in 1971, Pasolini discusses the poetic renewal that inspired Trasumanar e organizzar.

Pasolini the filmmaker had overshadowed for some time Pasolini the writer. Then, however, not only six tragedies and a collection of essays were published one after the other, but with Trasumanare e organizzar a poetic silence that had lasted since Poesia in forma di rosa (1964) was broken.

[Gardair]: Was this silence due to circumstances or to some "poet's block"?

[Pasolini]: Let's say that after Poesia in forma di rosa I had the feeling of having exhausted a certain linguistic world, the pleasure of certain choices, certain words. I didn't give up immediately, or rather I first tried to renew myself at any cost, but for this will power is not enough. There is no renewal...