Dear Dante: Poems
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    [synopsis] => An imagined conversation with Dante Alighieri written in response to the 700th anniversary of Dante's death by fellow Catholic poet, lover and master of the sonnet, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell.

  

 In the summer of 2021, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell honored the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, by embarking on a three-month pilgrimage through the 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy, reading one canto per day. This new collection, Dear Dante, is her response to Dante's epic poem: 39 poems (13 for each of the 3 canticles), plus an additional 3 to serve as prologue and epilogue, all written in the poetic forms Dante loved best: the sonnet and the form he invented, terza rima.

  

 In O'Donnell's words: "Dear Dante is a species of accompaniment, an act of homage, and a long love letter to Dante. It might also be read as a series of meditations that attest to how dear Dante is to us. The Commedia is our inheritance, a gift granted to readers by our brother poet 700 years ago. These poems are an admittedly small expression of gratitude for that grand and graced gift. Grazie Mille, Maestro."

    
	 "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



 "This splendid homage in Dante's favorite forms reflects Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's love and passionate engagement with The Divine Comedy. Pondering the Inferno she outdoes the maestro in compassion, 'Perfection is a dream the heartless chase.' Her meditations on the Purgatorio reaffirm Dante, allowing that 'souls en route to God know how to sing' and she deftly catches his Paradiso's peace of heart 'Where desire is defeated, love comes first.' We both delight in these poems and are reawakened to the wonder of Dante." – Micheal O'Siadhail, author of The Five Quintets   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. Introduction

 Dante, Thee, & Me

  

Prologue

 Dear Dante

  

Inferno

 The Journey                            (Canto I)

 Dante Meets Virgil                 (Canto I)

 Dante among the Poets           (Canto IV)

 Christ in Hell
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