Love Sonnets and Elegies
By Louise Labé
Preface by Karin Lessing
Afterword by Richard Sieburth
Translated by Richard Sieburth
By Louise Labé
Preface by Karin Lessing
Afterword by Richard Sieburth
Translated by Richard Sieburth
By Louise Labé
Introduction by Karin Lessing
Afterword by Richard Sieburth
Translated by Richard Sieburth
By Louise Labé
Introduction by Karin Lessing
Afterword by Richard Sieburth
Translated by Richard Sieburth
Part of NYRB Poets
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$12.95
Apr 08, 2014 | ISBN 9781590177310
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Apr 08, 2014 | ISBN 9781590177488
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Praise
“The deeply learned Louise Labé knew well the love poetry of Sappho, Propertius, Ovid, and Petrarch, but she herself joined the ranks of these great Western tossers and turners by breaking with convention. Across five centuries, thanks to Richard Sieburth’s beautiful translations, her urgent voice, her embodied images, and her rapid, somehow breathless, lines come to us as if they were spoken yesterday.” –Susan Stewart
“Richard Sieburth has captured the vigor, intensity, and vernacular tang of Louise Labé’s startling poems. He has turned the ‘rhymed cordage as twined and tensile as rope’ of the fabled Belle Cordière, daughter of a ropemaker, into spirited poems in English.” –Rosanna Warren
“[Labé] laments for one alone, but the whole of nature unites with them: it is the lament for one who is eternal.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“A great poet, perhaps one of the greatest of all time.” —The Polar Bear, a character in Samuel Beckett’s Dream of Fair to middling Women
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