This startling new translation of Dante\'s Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland\'s most dazzlingly gifted poets.
Like Seamus Heaney\'s Beowulf and Ted Hughes\'s Tales from O.
Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante\'s epic, Carson\'s virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thing--a translation with the heft and force of a true English poem.
This startling new translation of Dante\'s Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland\'s most dazzlingly gifted poets