Dante's Inferno by Lorna Goodison naturepoetry he was what Rilke called

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Dante's Inferno by Lorna Goodison naturepoetry he was what Rilke called'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