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Author: Susan Landers

Publisher: O Books (2007)

In this translation of Dante, Susan Landers reframes the Inferno in 21st century terms, setting it in New York, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the Iraq War. The text shifts between Dantean language and contemporary news-speak, rendering an ethical landscape in which poetry presents the possibility of alternate endings, grounded in a sense of community and empathy.