Dante Alighieri (c.1265-1321) is the author of The Divine Comedy, a masterpiece of world literature.
Mary Jo Bang has published eight poetry collections, including A Doll for Throwing and Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a new translation of Dante's Inferno. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis.
"In her rich and exciting translation, Bang shows how this story for all time is a story for our time." --Chicago Review of Books "After Mary Jo Bang's brilliant time-traveling Inferno, I couldn't wait for her Purgatorio, which turns out to be every bit as meaty, luscious, erudite, straight-talking, and joyful as I had hoped. Bang has an uncanny sense of how to slip inside and between Dante's lines, guiding us along his most perilous paths."--Susan Bernofsky "Luminous, empathetic, and inventively reverent, this thrilling sequel to Bang's Inferno maps a passage between hell and heaven for our purgatorial historical moment. . . . Above all, this ingenious and artful translation reminds us that Dante's Purgatorio, like the divine comedy in which we are all extras, is a poem about love."--Srikanth Reddy
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