Several years back, poet James Sale faced a life-threatening illness. Over the course of seven years, he wrote about it – in verse form. And his writing was not only in verse form, but also patterned after Dante’s Divine Comedy. What Sale wrote was a kind of homage to Dante, to be sure, but it far more of his own story and his own creation. He was inspired by the Italian poet, but he didn’t mimic him.
The first volume, tracking Dante’s Inferno, was Hellward. The second was StairWell (think Purgatorio). And now the trilogy of what Sales has collectively called The English Cantos is complete with DoorWay, which is how Sales has entitled what Dante called Paradiso.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
A Poem to Welcome June: “Sabbaths, 1979 (III)” by Wendell Berry – Kelley Keller t On the Common.
A Red, Red Rose – poem by Robert Burns at Every Day Poems.
50 States of Generosity: Rhode Island – Sandra Heska King at Tweetspeak Poery.
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” poem by William Wordsworth – Rabbit Room Poetry.
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