The Inferno - Paperback
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The Inferno
"Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state." So begins Lorna Goodison's astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described as "uncompromising as an old testament prophet, stern as a Rastafarian elder."
For the last two decades, Goodison has translated and reimagined Dante's cantos, setting the original poem into her native...
Lorna Goodison is the author of 15 books of poetry, most recently Mother Muse which was shortlisted for The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Véhicule Press released her first-ever book of essays in Canada, Redemption Ground, in 2023. Born in Jamaica, Goodison has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan, and now lives in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia. Goodison wa...
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