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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 1993
This new version of the Inferno might be termed more accurately an "interpretation'' of Dante rather than a translation. Contemporary poets ranging from Seamus Heaney to Carolyn Forche and W.S. Merwin have collaborated on this book, and poetic license reigns. The poet Daniel Halpern plainly states in the preface that the contributors "were selected...Log In or Sign Up to Read More