"This slim volume collects a handful of pieces of literary scholarship by one of the most significant figures in critical theory and contemporary European Philosophy. Dante is the book’s key presider as Agamben thinks through questions about the relationship between literature, language, theology, and philosophy, and approaches from a number of angles the larger question of poetry’s ends."

Recommended by Eric Falci, Associate Professor of English and author of Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010