City of Dante

City of Dante is a poetry sequence by Kevin McFadden collaboratively based on illustrations by Jeff Pike. The sequence of fourteen poems is an elegy on a father's death that walks not only in the footsteps of Dante's Florence but also retraces the spiritual stations between doubt and belief. Originally created for a handmade, limited-edition book at the Virginia Center for the Book, the challenge according to the artists, "was not just poems that react to images, but images and text that interweave and create a new journey."