Inferno: A New Translation
By Dante Alighieri.
Description
An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been renderedStopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. --from Canto IAward-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the Inferno into English at a moment when popular culture is so prevalent that it has even taken Dante, author of the fourteenth century epic poem, The Divine Comedy, and turned him into an action-adventure video game hero. Dante, a master of innovation, wrote his poem in the vernacular, r...
ISBN(s)
1555976549, 9781555976545
