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"Seven hundred years after his death, Dante Alighieri's poetry continues to intrigue and move us. Donald Carlson invites us to relive the journey of The Divine Comedy in one hundred excerpts, one from each canto of the poem, that he tweeted over the course of one hundred days in observation of the septicentennial of Dante's death. He accompanies each excerpt with a reflection based on his own experiences of having studied and taught the poem for thirty-plus years. This reimagining of Dante's poem helps to underscore that the journey is not just Dante's, but that it is truly """"our life's journey."""""

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Using the vehicle of the tweet, Donald Carlson takes us on two journeys at once. First, he shares a short review of the canto he surveys. Second, within that summary, he weaves his own interpretive insights--his own Divine Comedy--grasped through his rich, nuanced imaginal reading of each canto and its relevance to today's world. We are gifted with a double vision: Dante's and Don's. What a rich journey! --Dennis Patrick Slattery, author of Day-to-Day Dante: Exploring Personal Myth Through The Divine Comedy Who else but the boundlessly inventive writer and teacher extraordinaire Dr. Donald Carlson would think of dispensing gems from Dante's Inferno via Twitter, and then reel us even further in with one hundred ever-so-thoughtful pontifications that mesh seamlessly with this timeless work of the Italian poet, writer, and philosopher? I would characterize Professor Carlson much as Dante would Virgil--namely, as 'he who is guide, who leads my eyes on high.' --Christopher Phillips, author of Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy Don Carlson's selection of Tweet-sized excerpts from Dante's poem, accompanied by his illuminating commentary, succeeds marvelously in doing what it sets out to do: capturing the essence of each canto as we relive Dante's journey through the poem. The commentaries are so good--each one a masterfully condensed interpretation based on long experience and study of the poem--I would recommend them to anyone seeking greater understanding and enjoyment of Dante's epic. --Stephen Shivone, Thomas Aquinas College

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Donald Carlson lives and teaches in North Texas. His poems have appeared in a number of journals. He has also published essays on the plays of William Shakespeare. In 2015, he collaborated on a volume of poetry, Road Frame Window, with two friends and fellow poets, Timothy Donohue and Dennis Patrick Slattery.

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