WHAT DANTE IS TRYING TO TELL US

A colloquial translation of Paradiso might make people actually read it.

“Nowhere in poetry,” T. S. Eliot wrote about this last scene, “has experience so remote from ordinary experience been expressed so concretely.”

Excerpt: "Now is a good time to pick up Paradiso. Some readers might be looking for salvation along the way, but the message is even more universal than that. When the world feels out of control, you can still use your imagination to ascend above the noise, the havoc. Doing so, you might realize just how small you are: small, but far from alone. There are billions and billions of others just like you, trying to navigate “the middle of what we call our life."ife.”