Dear Dante (eBook)

Poems

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
96 Seiten
Paraclete Press (Verlag)
978-1-64060-938-9 (ISBN)

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An imagined conversation with Dante Alighieri written in response to the 700th anniversary of Dante's death by fellow Catholic poet, lover and master of the sonnet, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell.

 


In the summer of 2021, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell honored the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, by embarking on a three-month pilgrimage through the 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy, reading one canto per day. This new collection, Dear Dante, is her response to Dante's epic poem: 39 poems (13 for each of the 3 canticles), plus an additional 3 to serve as prologue and epilogue, all written in the poetic forms Dante loved best: the sonnet and the form he invented, terza rima.


 


In O'Donnell's words: "Dear Dante is a species of accompaniment, an act of homage, and a long love letter to Dante. It might also be read as a series of meditations that attest to how dear Dante is to us. The Commedia is our inheritance, a gift granted to readers by our brother poet 700 years ago. These poems are an admittedly small expression of gratitude for that grand and graced gift. Grazie Mille, Maestro."


 

Autor

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Ph.D., is a writer, poet, and professor. She teaches English, Creative Writing, and courses in Catholic Studies at Fordham University in New York City and serves as Associate Director of Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. She is also co-editor of the Curran Center's new book series, "Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series," published by Fordham University Press.

Inhalt

Introduction

Dante, Thee, & Me


 

Prologue

Dear Dante


 

Inferno

The Journey                            (Canto I)


Dante Meets Virgil                 (Canto I)


Dante among the Poets           (Canto IV)


Christ in Hell                          (Canto IV)


Dante among the Lovers         (Canto V)


On Fame                                 (Canto VI)


Swimming with Dante            (Canto XII)


Dante among the Suicides      (Canto XIII)


Dante among the Diviners      (Canto XX)


Dante & the Devil's Fart        (Canto XXI)


Vanni Fucci's Figs                  (Canto XXV)


Ugolino's Hell                        (Canto XXXIII)


On Leaving the Inferno          (Canto XXXIV)


 

Purgatorio

Postcard from Purgatory #1                (Canto I)


Dante's Song                                      (Canto II)


Dante's Reluctance                             (Canto V)


Virgil in Limbo                                   (Canto VII)


Dante at the Gate                                (Canto IX)


Dante among the Envious                   (Canto XIII)


Dante & St. Stephen                           (Canto XV)


Dante among the Avaricious              (Canto XIX)


Virgil's Fan Club                                (Canto XXI)


Dante among the Gluttons                  (Canto XXIV)


Christ in Purgatory                             (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1030-31)


Virgil's Farewell                                 (Canto XXVII)


Dante Meets Beatrice                         (Canto XXX)


 

Paradiso

Dante in Heaven                                             (Canto I)


Dante's Warning                                             (Canto II)


Dante on the Moon                                         (Canto III)


Dante the Master Chef                                    (Canto X)


Dante among the Blessed Souls                     (Canto XIV)


Christ in Paradise                                            (Canto XIV)


The Prophecy                                                  (Canto XVII)


Dante Is Asked a Rhetorical Question           (Canto XIX)


Beatrice's Smile                                            (Canto XXI)


Dante's Smile                                                 (Canto XXII)


Dante's Hope                                                  (Canto XXV)


Dante Loses Beatrice                                      (Canto XXXI)


The Price of Paradise                                      (Canto XXXIII)


 

Epilogue(s)

Dante, Darling


Dante's Bargain


 


Acknowledgements


 


A Note on Translations


 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2024
• Verlagsort: ORLEANS
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: 100 cantos • 700th anniversary of Dante • American poetry • Andalusian Hours • Beatrice • Beatrice and Dante • best of American poetry • catholic poet • catholic poetry • Christian Poetry in America • conversation with Dante • Dante Alghieri • Dante anniversary • Dante lovers • Dante’s cantos • Dante’s sonnets • death of Dante • epic poems • Epic Poetry • epilogue to Dante • Flannery O'Connor • fordham • Fordham University • Holy Land: Poems • homage to Dante • Inferno • insight into Dante • love letter to Dante • master of the sonnet • meditations on Dante • New poetry collection • Paradiso • Poetic form • Poetry as devotional • poetry on Dante • prologue to Dante • Province of Joy • Purgatoria • response to the Divine Comedy • Sonnets on Dante • Still Pilgrim • Taking Root in the Heart • talk with Dante • terza rima • The Divine Comedy • woman poet
• ISBN-10: 1-64060-938-5 / 1640609385
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64060-938-9 / 9781640609389