B After Dante
B After Dante by Ned Denny, published by Carcanet in 2021, is a unique poetic work that reimagines Dante’s Divine Comedy through a contemporary lens. This edition spans 329 pages and is presented in English, offering readers a fresh perspective on a classic text. Denny’s baroque interpretation transforms the original into nine hundred 144-syllable stanzas, blending sacred themes with modern sensibilities.
In this collection, readers will encounter a vivid exploration of the contrasts between the sacred and the profane, as Denny navigates the complexities of existence with both tenderness and brutality. The work reflects on profound themes of grief and the human experience, inviting contemplation through its audacious and provocative language. This edition serves as a testament to the enduring relevance of Dante’s work, making it accessible and engaging for contemporary audiences.
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“It was dusk, when the dark earth stains the blueing air
and soothes bird in tall tree and beast in silent lair;
I alone amidst all that hush of soil and leaf
prepared for the war of the way and the way’s great grief,
of which an undistracted heart may speak or sing…”
Published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, Ned Denny’s baroque, line-by-line reimagining – the follow-up to his Seamus Heaney Prize-winning collection Unearthly Toys – shapes the Divine Comedy into nine hundred 144-syllable stanzas. Audacious, provocative and eminently readable, tender and brutal by turns, rooted in sacred doctrine yet with one eye on the profane modern world, this poet’s version – in the interpretative tradition of Chapman, Dryden and Pope – is a living, breathing Dante for our times. Hell has never seemed so savage, nor heaven so sublime
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