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Dante in China
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ISBN10: 1597090417
ISBN13: 9781597090414
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Jul 10 2018
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781597090414
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Jul 10 2018
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful. Bach's final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence. And his afterlife: When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: I won't need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.
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