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Madeleine Klebanoff-O’Brien, drawings of Dante’s cosmos

November 22, 2020 By Professor Arielle Saiber

 

Harvard University undergraduate, Madeleine Klebanoff-O’Brien, ’22, “whose research focused on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, concluded her fellowship by creating a fully image-based research product. She illustrated Dante’s entire cosmos with visual details pulled from Houghton sources, including depictions of Earth’s elements inspired by medieval astronomical texts and drawings of angels based on 14th-century woodcuts. To explain the map’s symbolic elements to an average viewer, Klebanoff-O’Brien also made an image-based commentary…”    –Anna Burgess

See full article with many images, Anna Burgess, The Harvard Gazette, September 23, 2020

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2020, Angels, Cambridge, Cosmos, Drawings, Illustration, Massachusetts, Paradiso, Planets, United States

Will Brewbaker on Shane McCrae’s “Sometimes I Never Suffered”

November 6, 2020 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“This act of holding together both heaven and earth pervades Shane McCrae’s Sometimes I Never Suffered, the prolific poet’s latest collection. Racial injustice, economic inequality, simple human cruelty — McCrae addresses all of these subjects, these facts of the world, head-on — while, like Dante, transposing the literal into the otherworldly.  [. . .]

“The final two poems in Sometimes I Never Suffered return explicitly to Dantean territory. Famously, the last word in each section of Dante’s Comedy is the Italian word ‘stelle,’ meaning ‘stars.’ In a sly parallel, McCrae makes this Limber’s last word, too. After describing meeting one of those souls who were ‘babies when they died […] [who] walk around in sailor hats with blank / Looks on their faces’ — another ingenious creation — Limber says:

… when I tried to talk to
Him it was like I wasn’t there
So    I peeked    in his mouth

and in his mouth was the whole sky and stars

“Not only does this final line offer a remarkably coherent cosmic scope, but it also serves as a segue into the book’s last movement — a multipage poem that returns to the hastily assembled angel’s story and finds the angel first building, then climbing the ladder to heaven.” [. . .]    —Will Brewbaker, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 13, 2020.

Read more of Brewbaker’s reviews here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Books, Dante, Divine Comedy, Literature, Poetry, Reviews, Short Stories, United States

Selva Oscura Album, Lawrence English and William Basinski (2018)

October 26, 2020 By lsanchez

“Tonight, as part of the Fulcrum Arts Annual Benefit fundraiser—which itself sits within Fulcrum Arts’ A×S Festival: City as Wunderkammer—Lawrence English and William Basinski will present the world premiere performance of their collaborative album Selva Oscura.”    –XLR8R Staff, XLR8R, November 7, 2018

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2018, California, Los Angeles, Music, Musicians, Selva oscura, United States

Dante Pizzeria Napoletana

October 9, 2020 By lsanchez

Dante Pizzeria Napoletana, founded in 2009, located in Omaha, Nebraska.

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Places
Tagged with: 2009, Cuisine, Demons, Devil, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, United States

Dante, Virginia

October 8, 2020 By lsanchez

 

“One such community is a former coal camp just north of St. Paul, Virginia. The unincorporated community of Dante, population 650, is enriched by its history and culture. Formerly the headquarters of Clinchfield Coal Corporation, Dante is located about 8 miles off of U.S. Route 58 Alternate, nestled cozily in the mountains and near the Clinch River. Dante is envisioning a path towards economic transition and vitality. In March 2016 the community formed the Dante Community Association (DCA), an all-volunteer group of residents and organizations that are striving to transform the town through the development and implementation of a strategic plan funded by numerous grants and partnerships.”    –Sara Lamb, Appalachian Voices, October 25, 2019

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2019, United States, Virginia

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