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An imagined conversation with Dante Alighieri written in response to the 700th anniversary of Dante s death by fellow Catholic poet lover and master of the sonnet Angela Alaimo O Donnell In the summer of 2021 Angela Alaimo O Donnell honored the 700th anniversary of Dante s death by embarking on a three month pilgrimage through the 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy reading one canto per day This new collection Dear Dante is her response to Dante s epic 39 poems 13 for each of the 3 canticles plus an additional 3 to serve as prologue and epilogue all written in the poetic forms Dante loved the sonnet and the form he invented terza rima In O Donnell s Dear Dante is a species of accompaniment an act of homage and a long love letter to Dante It might also be read as a series of meditations that attest to how dear Dante is to us The Commedia is our inheritance a gift granted to readers by our brother poet 700 years ago These poems are an admittedly small expression of gratitude for that grand and graced gift Grazie Mille Maestro Dear Dante PoemsA beautifully written book seeking a conversation with Dante as the author walks her way alongside him through Hell Purgatory and Heaven Dear Dante Poems Summary An imagined conversation with Dante responding to the three sections of the Divine Comedy in sonnets and terza rima. Dear dentist On the 700th anniversary of Dante s death Angela Alaimo O Donnell set herself a goal of reading through the Divine Comedy in three months As she read she wrote a series of poetic responses She engaged Dante in the forms he used the sonnet and terza rima In all she wrote 42 poems a Prologue thirteen poems for each of the three sections and an Epilogue of two poems A quote introduces each canto to which she is responding. Book Dear dante alighieri Commenting on the poems she writes Some of the poems I wrote endorse and enlarge on Dante s vision others challenge it and still others reject it out of hand In these poems I dare to differ with Dante an intellectual spiritual and artistic act that creates a space for encounter with the master poet acknowledging a tension that isn t easily resolved p 9. Dear Dante book From Inferno IV she reflects on what Christ would have thought of Dante s hell and wonders how the Savior who forgave so many sinners could approve eternal punishment She wonders if Jesus would have grieved the sinners he failed to retrieve. Kindle Dear dantewada naxal In Purgatorio IX O Donnell reflects how we cannot go through Hell Purgatory or heaven unchanged And there is no turning back to what we were For Christ however though he knows of Purgatory he cannot go through it as the sinless one And Virgil Dante s guide through Hell and Purgatory cannot join Dante in passing the gates to Heaven O Donnell reflects upon the greatness of his sacrifice. Dear dentist Heaven is not all sublime for Dante He grasps the folly of humans who do what they are not supposed to do Yet they look for mercy undeserved When Beatrice leaves in Paradiso XXXIII O Donnell chides him that he is surprised He forgets the lessons learned in Hell and Purgatory that we never get what we expect. Deer dentition O Donnell ends her reflections with Dante s Bargain a sonnet She observes His tale of exile and his tears the lifetime that he spent composing lines creating rhymes to make the perfect poem have all survived the test of time While Dante s time differs from ours O Donnell introduces us to the magnificence of the Divine Comedy And she voices the ways it may seem strange to our ears I never got past Inferno in my own reading of Dante O Donnell has served as a kind of Virgil Perhaps she will get me to the gates of Paradiso And who will be the Beatrice to meet me there ____________________Disclosure of Material Connection I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher for review Dear Dante Poems
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., Dear daniel sanrio Inferno XII describes Dante s encounter with the bloody river She equates this with anger and reflects on how anger can be both a pleasure and a cage