“Luzzi’s story is intensely personal, but holds universal appeal for anyone who has experienced love and loss. “Luzzi honestly grapples with profound questions about being a man and father in this very literary and very personal work.” Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch In a Dark Wood is a memoir of love and loss but more than that, it is a powerful testimony to the consolation-even salvation-that an engagement with great literature can supply.” “Joseph Luzzi lived through something terrible, and has made something beautiful. “A forthright chronicle of emergence from darkness.” Drawing us into hell and back, it is Dante’s journey, Joseph Luzzi’s, and our very own.
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But it wasn’t until he turned to The Divine Comedy-a poem he had devoted his life to studying and teaching-that he learned how to resurrect his life.įollowing the same structure as Dante’s epic poem, Luzzi is shepherded out of his own “dark wood,” passing through the grief-stricken Inferno, the Purgatory of healing, and ultimately stepping into the Paradise of rediscovered love.īeautifully written, poignant, insightful, and unflinchingly honest, In a Dark Wood is a hybrid of heartrending memoir and a meditation on the power of great art to give us strength in our darkest moments. In the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy, Luzzi relied on the support of his Italian immigrant family, returning to his childhood home to grieve and care for his infant daughter.
In one terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a first-time father. On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante scholar and professor at Bard College, found himself racing to the hospital-his wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you turn? In a Dark Wood What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
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