Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
Australian metal band Above/Below released an EP titled The Sowers of Discord on January 12, 2017. The album features track titles that reference various parts of the Divine Comedy, including “I.I Purgatory”, “I.II Inferno”, and “I.III Paradise”.
For more information about the album, see its entry on Bandcamp here.
The full EP can be streamed on YouTube here.
Deborah DeNicola’s poem “Desire with Mountain and Dante” was published in the collection Original Human in 2010. In a personal email communication, DeNicola recounts, “I am an east-coast person and I was in Seattle and Mt. Rainier was in the distance. I had not been in a relationship for several years and was aware of my own ‘desire without an object of desire,’ as Wallace Stevens puts it. I had been teaching The Inferno so Dante was on my mind.”
Original Human can be purchased at Amazon. Many thanks to the author for permission to reprint the poem.
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