Bøger af Robert Dinapoli

Robert DiNapoliis a scholar of English language and literature, a translator and an essayist. In addition to academic articles, he has published poems and essays in Arena Magazine and PN Review. In his book A Far Light, he presents his translation of the Old English poem Beowulfalongside extensive commentaries. In the poems ofEngelboc, he scouts the frontiers between language, history, memory and the evolution of spiritual sensibilities across long reaches of time.

The Gnostic Hotel is a collection of poems. The poems pursue the author's long fascination with the thought-worlds of Gnosticism and Anthroposophy. Gnostics believe they have seen through the world's shoddy pretences. They 'know' the score, hence the name given their tendency, gnosis, a Greek word that means 'knowledge'. As to the word hotel: No one belongs in a hotel. Workers and guests alike lead their real lives elsewhere. Their pathscross fortuitously in a space built only for passage through. Home lies somewhere beyond the visible horizon. The disgruntled child may take refuge in a fantasy that he or she was adopted and is, unbeknownst to all, genuine royalty fallen on fairy-tale hard times. Sufficiently provoked, we're all closet Gnostics.