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Optics (A View From A Cracked Lens) by Emer Davis (Hardcover)
Irish poet, Emer Davis has published several poetry books, including Kill Your Television, Name Tag, To Tear Your Breath Away, Chaat and Postcards from India, exploring such diverse themes of love, loss, regret, childhood, migration, travel and how women have contributed to society. She won a major award with her poem Raqqa Bowl 2017 in the 2018 Trocaire Poetry Ireland competition. Her new collection Optics was written when she returned to Ireland where she re-acquainted herself with life back in Ireland after living in India for three years, looking at life through a lens smudged with an eclectic cultural experience as she tried to grapple with an Ireland that seems remote and distant to her since her return from India A gift from the Far East Gold inlaid circulars Smoking a cigarette Madame Butterfly was her favourite ‘Truly connected from generation to generation’ (Marguerita Sampson, Writer). Other poems in this collection have been described as ‘so good, so divine’.
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Hardback)
- Page : 462
- ISBN : 9789356520349
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 4 cm
The Divine Comedy (1320) is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. Begun in 1308 while Dante was exiled from his native Florence, The Divine Comedy-a long poem divided into three books of 33 cantos each-presents the author’s spiritual journey from sinfulness and despair to salvation and self-understanding. Written in the Tuscan vernacular, the poem was influential in establishing a standardized Italian language. In the first book, Inferno, Dante is led by the Roman poet Virgil into Hell. There, he comes to terms with his own sinfulness while observing the horrors and tortures suffered by those condemned to eternity in its circles. Along the way, Dante encounters historical figures, acquaintances, and other individuals whose violence, fraud, treachery, and betrayal led their spirits to terrible suffering.The Divine Comedy (1320) is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. Begun in 1308 while Dante was exiled from his native Florence, The Divine Comedy-a long poem divided into three books of 33 cantos each-presents the author’s spiritual journey from sinfulness and despair to salvation and self-understanding. Written in the Tuscan vernacular, the poem was influential in establishing a standardized Italian language. In the first book, Inferno, Dante is led by the Roman poet Virgil into Hell. There, he comes to terms with his own sinfulness while observing the horrors and tortures suffered by those condemned to eternity in its circles. Along the way, Dante encounters historical figures, acquaintances, and other individuals whose violence, fraud, treachery, and betrayal led their spirits to terrible suffering.
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