Philip Womack

Looking for the meaning of life? Come to Constantine Phipps’ poetic theme park

What You Want, by Constantine Phipps, is a didactic verse epic that takes Dante as its model – and, against all expectation, it works

Fun at the theme park [Getty Images/iStockphoto]

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