The Inferno of Dante

Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener as no other in English has done why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power intensity and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award given by the Academy of American Poets. Well versed rapid and various in style the Inferno is narrated by Pinsky and three other leading poets: Seamus Heaney Frank Bidart and Louise Glück.Canto XXI (The Lawyers) (detail) 1992. Michael Mazur 1935-2009. © Museum of Fine Arts Boston.