Description
A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante’s early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.
The poems themselves tell the story of his undying love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party, through Dante’s sufferings and his attempts to conceal the true object of his devotion, to his overwhelming grief at her death, and ending with the transformative vision of her in heaven. These are some of the richest love poems in literature and the movement from self-pitying lament to praise for his beloved’s beauty and virtue illustrate the elevating power of love.
This lucid new translation, based on the latest authoritative Italian edition and featuring the Italian on facing pages, captures the ineffable quality of a work that has inspired the likes of Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges and Louise Glück.
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus 
Reference Points 
The Shaking City 
The Last Poems of Jules Laforgue 
Skimbleshanks 
The Tamarit Poems 
Poems Written Abroad 
No Far Shore 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
The Bees 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Peace Poems and meditations on peace 
Who Is Mary Sue? 
Jinx 
Negative Space 
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods