Dante in china
Auteur :
Barr, John
Éditeur :
Red Hen Press
ISBN :
9781597090414
Date de publication :
23 août 2018
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 0,8 cm
Poids :
136 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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