The Inferno: A Poet's Novel (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
I was hoping for a mashup of Jeanette Winterson and Patti Smith but instead I found Henry Miller with a partial lobotomy. Inferno is an excruciating read. I plodded through it just to prove to myself that I didn't dislike it simply because it's difficult. No, it's just bad, and boring. I wish someone had told Eileen Myles that simply being a lesbian, and saying over and over again that you are one, is not inherently interesting. i'm so tired and because of this i nearly became tired again, breathless, not in the tired exhausted way i've been but more like this kind of boosted me with the sort of energy as if you've done something, you're doing something, and because of that now you're full of the exhaustion that comes of doing something if not totally satisfactory and right but something large, something at all, because you need to, because what else is there to do.
What do You think about The Inferno: A Poet's Novel (2009)?
i liked this book. i read it very slowly, but it's not slow reading. it was easy. it felt good.
—Tina
I am in love with this book so far....all the way to the end and beyond.
—patrice
