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 [...]
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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. [...]