Dante's Inferno by Lorna Goodison indian poetry embrace the cities

embrace the cities

Joan Brossa

whether they are the forest fires that cover the American continent

The two books that make up this final collection in English show us a poet writing at the end of his life

Dante's Inferno by Lorna Goodison indian poetry embrace the cities'Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me there at midnight in a ramshackle state.' So begins Lorna Goodison's astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described as 'uncompromising as an Old Testament prophet, stern as a Rastafarian elder'. This Jamaican Dante, a quarter century in the making, is as much transformation as it is translation: the poet's narrator, its Dante figure, is now guided through an underworld by