Divine Comedy - by John Kinsella (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"One of the most original and poignantly authentic poets writing in English."--Harold Bloom<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A three-part, epic work challenging our notions about the environment by Australia's preeminent poet of the natural world. Consisting of <em>Purgatorio: Up Close</em>, <em>Paradiso: Rupture</em>, and <em>Inferno: Leisure Centre</em>, John Kinsella's distractions on Dante's <em>Divine Comedy</em> journey through time and space. Set in a wheat-belt Western Australia, these poems are a phantasmagoria of the real and imagined, depicting nature in its full regalia, resisting forces of environmental damage and human indifference.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In this brilliant and complex ecological 'comedy, ' where each day, indeed each moment, marks a new struggle in the survival of the fittest on our planet, John Kinsella has produced a multilayered poem of great daring, imagination, and originality. . . . An astonishing accomplishment.--Marjorie Perloff, author of 21st-Century Modernism<br>
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