Award-winning Poet Mary Jo Bang “Paradiso”

National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, Mary Jo Bang shares the conclusion of her celebrated translation of Dante Alighieri's “The Divine Comedy.” Translating “The Divine Comedy” was an ambitious twenty-year undertaking for Bang. There have been very few translations of the entire work by women, and no other translation has made the trilogy quite as readable and fun by bringing Dante into a twenty-first century vernacular while remaining faithful to the epic narrative of the trilogy.

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Presented in Partnership with the Saint Louis Poetry Center.