The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies ...

So that it will be worthy of salvation. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't concentrate on three lines at a time – you have to ...

What makes a poem more than 700 years old feel relevant today? The poet Mary Jo Bang is uniquely qualified to answer that question because she has spent the last 20 years translating Dante's "Divine ...

While the TV show Entourage is actually loosely based on the life of Mark Wahlberg, it could definitely moonlight as a show based upon the life of Adam Sandler. The only people on this earth luckier ...

This course focuses on close reading of Dante's poetry with emphasis on the intellectual, religious, political, and scientific background of the medieval world. Taught in English. Fulfills Arts ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the final installment and continues her style of lively, lyrical translation. KUOW ...