Inferno: A New Translation

“This will be the Dante for the next generation” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—now available in paperback* Named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year * Stopped mid-motion in the middleOf what we call our life, I looked up and saw no sky—Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost.                        —from Canto I“The only good Hell to be in right now is poet Mary Jo Bang’s innovative, new translation of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated with drawings by Henrik Drescher. Bang’s thrillingly contemporary translation of the first part (the juiciest part) of Alighieri’s fourteenth-century poem The Divine Comedy is indeed epic .