{"product_id":"paradiso-paperback-6","title":"Paradiso - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDante Alighieri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eD. M. Black\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eD. M. Black\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new translation of the final part of Dante's \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e by a poet and psychoanalyst praised for his previous translation of Dante's \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e brings \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e to a virtuosic and visionary end. This final leg of Dante's journey from Hell into the presence of God is for many the most memorable stretch of the poem, a musical and mystical interveaving of mind and heart and transported sense that is unlike anything else in world literature. This new English rendering of \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e by the poet D.M. Black, whose \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry, re-creates this masterpiece with fidelity and clarity.\u003cbr\u003e Cleansed of sin after his grueling trek up Mount Purgatory, Dante's pilgrim sets out to explore the celestial spheres under the guidance of his childhood sweetheart and lifelong muse, Beatrice. As he moves from the moon to the planets to the Primum Mobile and beyond, encountering emperors, heroes, saints, members of his family, and various other redeemed sinners, he contemplates optics, angels, free will, mercy, and love. The transcendent actuality of bliss is ever more palpable as the poem unfolds, and yet in the background remains the carnage of history and the deforming bitterness of the human heart, not to be denied--Dante is nothing if not a realist--even in the supreme light of \"the Love that moves the sun and all the stars.\"\u003cbr\u003e Written at a time of great political turmoil in Italy and great personal anxiety in Dante's life, \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e wrestles with many questions that have echoes in our own disturbing times. It is a book about the shape of the universe and how to find one's place within it, composed with inventive daring and linguistic ingenuity as Dante stretches language to its very limits, striving to make vivid and tangible the ineffable and sublime.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDante Alighieri\u003c\/b\u003e (1265-1321) was a Florentine poet and philosopher. Banished from Florence when his political enemies took power in 1301, he is best known for his works \u003ci\u003eThe New Life \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as his essay \u003ci\u003eDe vulgari eleoquentia\u003c\/i\u003e, a defense of the use of the vernacular in literature. He died in exile, in Ravenna. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. M. Black\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently \u003ci\u003eClaiming Kindred \u003c\/i\u003e(2011) and \u003ci\u003eThe Arrow Maker\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). He edited \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) and is the author of \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective \u003c\/i\u003e(2024). He is the translator of Dante's \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio \u003c\/i\u003e(2021) and \u003ci\u003eParadiso \u003c\/i\u003e(2025) for NYRB Classics\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethe former of which won the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and lives in London.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731216003379,"sku":"9781681379432","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/fWvVfMZZ-D9781681379432.webp?v=1763852139","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/paradiso-paperback-6","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}