Dante's Paradiso

Dante's Paradiso by Sanders, Marcus. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780811847209.

With the publication of Dantes Paradiso, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders complete their literary and artistic achievementthe retelling of The Divine Comedy in contemporary words and images. Hailed as "inspired" by the The London Review of Books, Birk and Sanderss adaptation of Dantes classic work is true to the spirit of the original and is as acerbic and shockingly funny today as in thirteenth-century Italy. With a text that incorporates modern slang and references to anachronistically recent public figures, Birk and Sanders pay tribute to Dantes linguistic approach and clever politics. Birks striking spin on Gustave Dors famous engravings accompany the cantos. Together they lend the timeless poem a postmodern edge. A major retrospective of all of Birks illustrations and paintings for the trilogy will be held at the San Jose Museum of Art in August 2005 in tribute to a masterpiece for our times.