PublishedNew York Review Books, February 2016 |
ISBN9781590177310 |
FormatSoftcover, 144 pages |
Dimensions17.9cm × 0.8cm × 11.6cm |
Louise Labe was a French medieval humanist poet equally loved and hated. Though over 400 years old her poetry continues to exert much influence and spur interest among the best of our contemporary, and past, poets; hence, this new and original edition translated by the famed French translator and scholar, Richard Sieburth.
Louise Labe, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a revelatory new English version by the award-winning translator Richard Sieburth.
