Dante in China (Paperback)
Paperback 88 pages English Jul 10, 2018
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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."
- Author:
- John Barr
- Publisher:
- Red Hen Press
- Publication Date:
- Jul 10, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 88 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1597090417
- ISBN-13:
- 9781597090414