Sunday, November 14, 2010

The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation


#547
Title: The Inferno of Dante:  A New Verse Translation
Author: Dante Alighieri & Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Year: 1997
355 pages

The Inferno for Dummies: A Verse Review

Some Italians I hate are dead. Yay.
Also, in hell. God rocks without a doubt.
Dead Virgil saved me when I lost my way,

Protected me from liars, sodomites,
And held bass-ackward simonists at bay,
As well as minotaurs and heads that bite.

The damned expound, are cleaved; they stink and shout.
At length, we scaled corrupted Satan's bits.
My foes are damned, while I have clambered out.

No comments:

Post a Comment