In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself again in a dark wood, where the right way was lost . So begins Frank Salvidio's compelling translation of the great journey of Western Christian Civilization-the pilgrimage of Dante ...

They met when both were young and she already married, with waist-long, gold-red hair that called instantly to mind Sappho's "girl with hair like a falling flame." Now, nearly half a century later, award-winning poet Frank Salvidio has gathered...