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    The packaging includes a deluxe booklet with original art by Eric Collins -- a portrait of each writer to which a song is dedicated, as well as notes on the songs and lyrics. Songs inspired by the lives and works of Emily Dickinson, Haruki Murakami, Isaac Babel, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, James Joyce, Dante, Paul Bowles, Seamus Heaney, and Albert Camus.

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Condemned to perpetual exile from Florence, his home, during a (lengthy) period of political upheaval, Dante Alighieri found solace, one might suspect, in the composition of his Divine Comedy, a literary masterpiece which helped unify into a coherent written language the many dialects that peppered the parts of the world we now know as Italy.
Dante, the outcast, tours the circles of Hell in his Commedia, spiralling in on a reunion with his beloved Beatrice, who spurns him on the page as she had in life. Having succumbed at an early age to an unrequited love for Beatrice, Dante found he couldn’t have her, even in his own book. Beatrice Portinari, the presumed object of Dante’s undying admiration, was the daughter of a banker, and, eventually, the wife of a banker.

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I’m halfway through my life, no light for me ahead
no fight left in my heart, no love to warm my bed
A darkness holds me fast, cast out from all I knew
a babel in my head, and a thousand thoughts of you
I’m here now take my hand, I’ll show you all that dies
I’ll show you all that lives, that burns for you inside
The truth with wounded wing, lies trembling in the sun
she struggles now to rise, her fears and mine are one
I’m here now take my hand, I’ll show you all that dies
I’ll show you all that lives, that burns for you inside
And though we never kissed in this world, I confess
this life have I endured that I might possess you in the next
Oh beatrice I loved you before we even spoke
I carried you apart, I held to you alone

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from Death Waits II: The Writers, released March 12, 2019

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