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Wonder-Work

Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg

Auteur original Catharina Greiffenberg
Traduit par Joanne Epp, Sarah Klassen & Sally Ito
Catégories: Poésie, Biographies et études littéraires, Religion et croyances, Philosophie et religion
Éditeur: CMU Press
Paperback : 9781987986143, 168 pages, Novembre 2023
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Not only in distress and death, but in my very mouth
my beloved gives himself to me in sweetness.
His blood, inflamed by love, shall quiet my heart’s heat.
I kiss and eat him out of love, here in my throat.
He could not be more closely wed with me.

La description

An unusual poet from the Baroque period meets 21st century poet-translators in this exceptional book. Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's intense devotional poems are matched with innovative and moving new English versions from Canadians Joanne Epp, Sally Ito, and Sarah Klassen. This is astonishing Metaphysical poetry: original, provocative, reverent.

The translators have chosen 65 poems from 300 in Greiffenberg's best-known work, Geistliche Sonette, Lieder und Gedichte. The sonnets in Wonder-Work are presented in both German and English.

Récompenses

  • Runner-up, Silver Medal for Poetry, Illumination Book Awards 2024