The System of Dante’s Hell
Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones
First paperback edition of polymathic writer Amiri Baraka’s debut novel, a reimagining of Dante’s Inferno as narrated in oblique prose by a young Black man drifting across the United States at midcentury. Grove Press’s Evergreen Black Cat imprint is notable for having published some of the most challenging and original works to come out of the experimental literary vanguard of the 1960s – The System of Dante’s Hell included – for a mass-market audience.