Dante In China

In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: "Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful." Bach's final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds "Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence." And his afterlife: "When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: I won't need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one."

• | Author: John Barr
• | Publisher: Red Hen Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 10, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 64 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 1597093564
• | ISBN-13: 9781597093569