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By Jonathan Locke Hart,Gordon Teskey

Jonathan Locke Hart explores in a modern context the divine and human comedy, taking his thought from Dante, but in addition making and wondering poetry in an international the place gentle shines “on deserted tires, commercial/ Junk with out allegory” and in a global that's and isn't genuine. This poetry is an exploration of brain, physique and soul in an business and technological international that has replaced lots because the nice mythological worlds made by means of poets as nice as Dante and Shakespeare. however the poem strikes from this “sullen commercial waste” and fires of existential hell during the in-between and purgatorial nation to at least one of desire and lightweight. All this is often inside of and with out the modern world.

A modern-day meditation at the inferno, purgatorio and paradisio of our global. hearth (hell) among (purgatory) gentle (heaven).

“Jonathan Hart’s latest e-book of poetry, Musing (2011) was once totally sonnets, that's the appropriate shape for repeated and recursive meditation at the self. ... within the current paintings Hart turns to a rarer, extra public kind of deal with, one who sees the realm feelingly within the nerves and center whereas greedy it with the brain, assessing it and eventually judging it. this can be an workout in ethical and political speech.... Few poets – although they contain Eliot, Auden, Lowell, Jorie Graham and A. R. Ammons – enterprise with such authority to talk for the world.” – Gordon Teskey, Harvard University

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