Dante's Inferno by Lorna Goodison Robyn Bolam As childhood memory is grafted

As childhood memory is grafted to the world of imagination – shaped by books

Roman Christianity

Creating Contemporary Poetry (2013)

it draws heavily on the author's archival research on Adam Smith

Dante's Inferno by Lorna Goodison Robyn Bolam As childhood memory is grafted'Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me there at midnight in a ramshackle state.' So begins Lorna Goodison's astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described as 'uncompromising as an Old Testament prophet, stern as a Rastafarian elder'. This Jamaican Dante, a quarter century in the making, is as much transformation as it is translation: the poet's narrator, its Dante figure, is now guided through an underworld by