To Join the Lost,Used

Product DescriptionSeth Steinzor has written a latterday version of Dante'sInferno. In this, the first of his threepart transformation of theDivine Comedy, contemporary sinners are treated to terrifyingly contemporary variations on the torments of the original Nine Circles of Hell. The book will be of great interest not only to Dante scholars and students but also to the general public, since its depictions of the Nether World are graphic and offered with all the gusto, indignation, immediacy, and not infrequent humor of Dante's original. The follies and excesses of the modern world have never been more clearly defined and excoriated.Review"It is sad that language difference, change of poetic forms, historical ignorance, and a secular reference frame have made Dante's stupendous work all but unavailable to the casual, modern reader. It is also sad that we have no latterdayInferno to display our many crimes and criminals, and to suggest the possibility of redemptionuntil now. Seth Steinzor's chutzproject of transforming Dante does just that. Here we have a modern geography of transgression, a ranking of the ignoble, and most importantly, a contemporary poet's take on the inglorious stew of our time." Marc Estrin, author ofInsect Dreams andThe Good Doctor Guillotin"To Join the Lost moves from comic to profound with compelling gracethis is an important work." Jeff Lindsay, internationally bestselling author of the Dexter seriesAbout the AuthorSeth Steinzor, born to a Jewish academic family in California in 1952, grew up in the environs of Buffalo, New York. He has been writing poetry nonstop since his teens. His first significant educational experience was at the Farm and Wilderness Camps in Vermont, from 1964 through 1968. In 1967 and 1968, he attended school in Florence, Italy, living during the week at the Pensione Beatrice, joining his family in Siena on weekends. In that morning, 'twas bliss to be alive. Graduating from Middlebury College in 1974, he attended the University of Maine School of Law in hopes of becoming Atticus Finch. As he is much shorter than Gregory Peck, it did not work out. The early 1980's found him in Boston, working with a Native American advocacy and service organization and as a bicycle courier. There he met the woman he was to marry, and moved to Vermont in 1983 to be with her. They had two children before divorcing in 2004. Along the way, a counselor introduced Steinzor to Buddhist meditation. It has helped. Steinzor has worked for the State of Vermont since 1985, as a civil rights investigator and lawyer, criminal prosecutor, and in social services.