The Divine Comedy has its end, after 3X9 spirals rendered in 100 evenly distributed cantos, and it’s about time my posts about the Poem wrap up too. The big question that’s kept me on BIG OTHER: why should so complex a work, about places and beliefs that have long since ceased to matter, actually continue [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dante’
Dante 2020-5: the Intimate Erases the Monolith.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby at suck, Charles Singleton, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Inferno, Krapp's Last Tape, monolith, Paradise, Purgatory, Robert Pinsky, Samuel Beckett, sex in Paradise on January 20, 2011 | 5 Comments »
BIG OTHER, gracious blog, has been letting me post my ideas about Dante’s Divine Comedy. The basic question: Why should so long and formal a piece of work, coming up on its 700th birthday and all about notions of faith hardly anyone believes in, still enjoy enormous contemporary impact? Earlier stages of my investigation have [...]
Dante 2020-4: Big Lights & Small Grapple in Paradise.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Botticelli, Celestial Rose, Dalí, Dante, Derrida, Empyrean, Godhead in flesh, John Domini, luce, Lume, Paradise on January 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Three times, recently, I’ve posted my ideas about Dante’s Divine Comedy. I’m exploring why a long poem coming up on its 700th birthday, one with a form and a theology that few people care about any longer, should have such enormous contemporary impact. The earlier stages of my investigation are here, here, and here, and again [...]
Dante 2020-3: Cleansing as Carnival, Tree as Anchor.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beatrice, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Divine Comedy, Earthly Paradise, Eunoe, Lethe, Lolita, Lucifer, Nabokov, Nimrod, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Salvador Dalí, terza rime, William Blake on January 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Twice in recent days, I’ve posted stages in a developing idea about Dante’s Divine Comedy. The work is coming up on its 700th birthday, yet its impact seems greater than ever, and we have to ask why. My own answer appeared first, in different form, in Southwest Review. Now, we climb towards salvation, led on [...]
Dante 2020, or How Does That Guy Get Away with a Fedora?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Dante, Divine Comedy, John Domini on January 9, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Struggling to deliver for BIG OTHER, I’ve kept coming back to the following, on Dante and his Divine Comedy. In different form, longer, the essay first appeared in Southwest Review. My thanks to the editor, Willard Spiegelman, for allowing me to adapt the piece, and to John M. and other OTHERs, for urging me on. [...]
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