Dante in China

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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 07/10/2018
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781597090414