Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography
Author: Kinsella, John
ISBN: 9780702236662
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 432
Dimensions: 200mm x 131mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, The Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books- Purgatorio- up close, Paradiso- rupture, and Inferno- leisure centre. The poet narrator takes the reader on a tour through the wonders of nature in its full regalia, resisting forces of damage and indifference that would see it destroyed. This is a book of hope and redemption that nonetheless faces up to the terrors and traumas in all of us, terrors and traumas we play out on the world, often unwittingly.
ISBN: 9780702236662
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 432
Dimensions: 200mm x 131mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, The Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books- Purgatorio- up close, Paradiso- rupture, and Inferno- leisure centre. The poet narrator takes the reader on a tour through the wonders of nature in its full regalia, resisting forces of damage and indifference that would see it destroyed. This is a book of hope and redemption that nonetheless faces up to the terrors and traumas in all of us, terrors and traumas we play out on the world, often unwittingly.
