Dante in China

by John Barr and John Barr

Book Overview

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:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597093564
• ISBN13: 9781597093569
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"