Many of the poems in Sean O'Brien's new collection take their emotional tenor and imaginative cue from his acclaimed translation of Dante's Inferno, and occupy a dark, flooded, subterranean world, as dramatically compelling as it is disquieting Circumstances have compelled O'Brien to return repeatedly to the elegiac form, and 'The Drowned Book' contains a number of powerfully moving poems written in memory of fellow poets and artists