Dante in China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781597090414)

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
ISBN-10: 1597090417
ISBN-13: 9781597090414
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2018
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d