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Jems Robert Koko Bi, Convoi Royal (2009)

April 29, 2022 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Dante’s journey paints a fine portrait of the world I was living in when Convoi Royal was created. This time, the world is a lot like reality. A world running a merciless race, steered by wild beasts devouring everything in their way. The huge hooves hammer the ground, chipping it away to form an infernal whirlpool. The earth trembles with each thud, tilts, and is thrown off balance. A terrible panic strikes its inhabitants. They raise their arms to shield their heads, run around in a crazed fray, seeking temporary shelter. In the beginning, these wild animals were normal beings whose duty was to ensure a better future for the world, but their stomachs were too empty and their prey too easy for this duty to be respected. They decided to satisfy their ego instead, rather than work for the well-being of their numerous fellow beings who were famished and dying. The unknown paradise started its royal convoy. Backed up against the wall, I resign myself to a constraint, deadly as it may be: to leave.” –Jems Robert Koko Bi

Retrieved from The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists by Simon Njami.

For more information on the Ivorian artist, see Wikipedia. For more information on Convoi Royal, visit the link here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2009, Africa, Art, Art Books, Charon, Inferno, Ivory Coast, Journeys, Sculptures, Visual Arts

Dante Rebuses, a Verbis, and a Crossword

December 5, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

Settimana Enigmistica #4046, 10 ottobre 2009, p. 40.
Contributed by Marco Arnaudo

 

Settimana Enigmistica #5961. Date unknown.
Contributed by Marco Arnaudo

L’Enigma, anno 1, numero 4 (1935)
Contributed by Marco Arnaudo

 

Designed by Marco Arnaudo, 2021

Designed by Marco Arnaudo, 2021

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 1935, 2009, 2021, Crosswords, Italy, Paradiso, Puzzles, Rebus, Verbis

Daniel Bukvich, Divina Comedia (2009)

October 19, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“American composer Daniel Bukvich composed a three-movement suite called Divina Comedia in 2009, for choir and mixed percussion.”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2009, Divina Commedia, Divine Comedy, Music, United States

Alvart, Pandorum (2009)

September 5, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“The film Pandorum (2009) makes several allusions to The Divine Comedy.”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2009, Divine Comedy, Film, Germany, Hell, Horror, Science Fiction, United Kingdom

Leonard Kress, “That Day We Read No More” (2019)

May 4, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

A vengeful sheering Great Lakes wind,
uprooting trees, flinging roof shingles—
split stumps and flayed branches. A whole dangle
of modifiers. Infinitives finding
syntax amid the wreckage. I can almost
make out the spoken scrawl, part malignant rant,
and part avowal, part warning and part advance
directive. Yet what I hear most is boast

when winds subside: Love led me to betray,
and the agony that betrayal once begot
afflicts me now, like you, who’ll stay
to hear my tale. You, like me, who sought
to authorize illicit love—you’re doomed
like some obsessive-compulsive, forever caught

in the act of betrayal. Forever damned.
Give me details, I demand, hoping
our stories do not match. There’s no stopping,
she says—Francesca, mother, who charmed
Paolo with her quizzing glance. I asked
my would-be lover to admit out loud
with certain sighs he wanted me. He held
his breath long as he could. And then, unmasked,

indifference and restraint abandoned, distance
obliterated—we agreed to read
together the tale of Lancelot’s romance
with his King’s wife Guinevere, and the bed
in which they found delight. That pleasure is
now pain—in inverse proportion to the deed.

Leonard Kress’s poem “That Day We Read No More,” a rewriting of Inferno 5, was published in The Orpheus Complex by Main Street Rag Press in 2009. It is available for purchase on the Main Street Rag website. The poem was featured in NonBinary Review #19, a 2019 collection of poems dedicated to Dante’s Inferno, available from Zoetic Press. Many thanks to the author for permission to publish the poem on Dante Today.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2009, 2019, Betrayal, Inferno, Inferno 5, Lancelot and Guinevere, Love, Lust, Paolo and Francesca, Poems, Poetry, United States

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