{"product_id":"9781597093569-dante-in-china","title":"Dante in China","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: \"Flaring well gas night and day, \/ towers rise as if to say, \/ Pollution can be beautiful.\" Bach's final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds \"Demagogues are the insects of politics\u003cbr\u003eIn John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: “Flaring well gas night and day, \/ towers rise as if to say, \/ Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. \/ Like water beetles they stay afloat \/ on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence.” And his afterlife: “When three-headed Cerberus greeted him \/ Socrates replied: I won’t need \/ an attack dog, thankyou. I married one.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55421482369398,"sku":"9781597093569","price":19.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28621652.jpg?v=1742889610","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781597093569-dante-in-china","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}