Publisher's Synopsis
- Reddy is an acclaimed poet and scholar whose previous books have been positively reviewed in outlets such as The New Yorker, the Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR.
- Reddy also has high profile bylines on poetry at publications such as The New York Times and The New Republic.
- This is the final book in a trilogy (along with Facts for Visitors and Voyager) loosely based on Dante's Inferno; it has a strong narrative arc, fantastic story-telling aspect, and humor that should appeal to wide audiences.
- The book is also unified by playful formal innovations, such as the use of facsimiles and images, academic quizzes, and variously translated refrains, that give the book a thematic cohesion.
- The book has a strong appeal across the humanities, as well, with translation, comparative literatures and mythologies, poetics, and academic life all central components.
- The book also deals lucidly with cancer and mortality and could equally be read as an off-kilter survivor's story.
- Reddy is a literature professor at the University of Chicago.
