Dear Dante: Poems
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Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Ph.D., is a writer, poet, and professor. She teaches English, Creative Writing, and courses in Catholic Studies at Fordham University in New York City and serves as Associate Director of Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. She is also co-editor of the Curran Center's new book series, "Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series," published by Fordham University Press.
"Dear Dante unfolds as a poetic correspondence between two poets in dialogue across space, time, and languages. Both are pilgrims striving to walk their paths to achieve the bliss of heaven, and though they are separated by centuries, they are not so different. Both interrogate themselves and their worlds while eliciting in their readers the desire to join and partake in their poetic and spiritual camino. Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's rare sensitivity as a reader and her technical excellence as a poet take us closer to the Commedia by making Dante's poetry alive and engaged with our modern world and selves." --Susanna Barsella, author of In the Light of the Angels: Angelology and Cosmology in Dante's Divina Commedia
"What a splendid reading Angela Alaimo O'Donnell offers us here in Dear Dante, as she travels (poet with poet) with Dante as her guide through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise! And the emotions O'Donnell registers in these responses to the Prince of Poets--from the deep, chilling wisdom and pity she gleans from Hell, to the tears for our human frailty, to that visceral sense of experiencing what is lost for good in our purgation, to understanding the necessity to let go of our ego-centered desires for the one thing necessary: Love. And all of this told, as with her other teacher, Flannery O'Connor, with a wit and honesty and deep insight where even words fail as we search for that One Word we hunger for." --Paul Mariani, author of Deaths and Transfigurations, The Mystery of It All, and All That Will be New
