Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as a work of profound satiric fury and by Bookpage as funny and deeply affecting, Birk and Sanders masterwork is now available for the first time in a substantial and sumptuous slipcased set.The pair's innovative and authentic adaptation of Dante's epic, coupled with Birk's striking play on Gustave Doré's classic illustrations, make this a Divine Comedy for the 21st century.
Acclaimed by both the literary and art worlds; rife with contemporary turns of phrase and slang (just as the original poem was written in the vernacular of its day) and pointed visions of the afterlife as contemporary cities; and rich with bold allusion, cultural critique, and wit-this is the must-have collection of modern classics.
