Jennifer Doane Upton
Dark Way to Paradise
Dark Way to Paradise Dante’s Inferno in Light of the Spiritual Path by Jennifer Doane Upton Dante’s Inferno is often presented today in lurid “gothic” terms as if it were no more than an entertaining demonic freak-show. Alternately, it is taken as merely a cultural and political commentary on Dante’s own place and time,…
Black Sun
Black Sun Poems 1965-1985 by Jennifer Doane Upton The poems in this book make up one of the shortest and most perfectly-finished “life’s-works” of any poet in English. They have all the austerity, compactness and transcendental intent of Emily Dickinson, with a touch of the sensibility of Sylvia Plath, to bring them down into our…
The Ordeal of Mercy
The Ordeal of Mercy Dante’s Purgatorio in Light of the Spiritual Path by Jennifer Doane Upton The Ordeal of Mercy is a book of wide erudition, simple style and sometimes shocking depth; its goal is to present the Purgatorio as a practical guide to travelers on the Spiritual Path. In the words of the…
Charles Upton 