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Author Luzzi, Joseph.

Title In a dark wood : what Dante taught me about grief, healing, and the mysteries of love / Joseph Luzzi.

Publication Info. New York, NY : HarperWave, [2015]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  851.1 DANTE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  851.1 LUZZI    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  851.1 LUZZI    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  851.1 LUZZI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  851 LUZ    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO LUZZI    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  851.1 LUZ    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  851.1 LUZZI    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  851.1 LUZZI    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  858 D192YLUZ    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 297 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning--a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss. Where do we turn when we lose everything? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in the opening of The Divine Comedy: "In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood. "When Luzzi's pregnant wife was in a car accident--and died forty-five minutes after giving birth to their daughter, Isabel--he finds himself a widower and first-time father at the same moment. While he grieves and cares for his infant daughter, miraculously delivered by caesarean before his wife passed, he turns to Dante's Divine Comedy for solace. In a Dark Wood tells the story of how Dante helps the author rebuild his life. He follows the structure of The Divine Comedy, recounting the Inferno of his grief, the Purgatory of healing and raising Isabel on his own, and then Paradise of the rediscovery of love. A Dante scholar, Luzzi has devoted his life to teaching and writing about the poet. But until he turned to the epic poem to learn how to resurrect his life, he didn't realize how much the poet has given back to him. A meditation on the influence of great art and its power to give us strength in our darkest moments, In a Dark Wood opens the door into the mysteries of Dante's epic poem. Beautifully written and flawlessly balanced, Luzzi's book is a hybrid of heart-rending memoir and critical insight into one of the greatest pieces of literature in all of history. In a Dark Wood draws us into man's descent into hell and back: it is Dante's journey, Joseph Luzzi's, and our very own"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue -- I: The Underworld: An Hour with the Angels -- Consider Your Seed -- Love-40 -- II: Mount Purgatory: Astrid and Anja -- The Gears of Justice -- Rough Draft -- III: One Thousand And One: Posthoc7 -- Fathers and Sons -- Open Hours -- Epilogue.
Subject Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divine comedy.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Influence.
Luzzi, Joseph.
Books and reading -- Psychological aspects.
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
Grief -- Biography.
Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. (OCoLC)fst00029097
Luzzi, Joseph. (OCoLC)fst01927023
Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) (OCoLC)fst01356246
Biography. (OCoLC)fst00832149
Books and reading -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00836464
Grief. (OCoLC)fst00947883
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature. (OCoLC)fst01013156
Genre/Form Autobiography.
collective biographies. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300080111
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 9780062357519 (hardback)
0062357514 (hardback)
9780062357526 (paperback)
0062357522 (paperback)
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