Wonder-Work
Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
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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 Epp, Ito, and Klassen. This is astonishing Metaphysical poetry: original, provocative, reverent.
About this Author
Poet/translator Joanne Epp is a Winnipeg poet and musician with two published collections, Eigenheim (2015) and Cattail Skyline (2021).Poet/translator Sarah Klassen has published four books of fiction and eight books of poetry; her New and Selected Poems was published by CMU Press in 2024.Sally Ito is a poet and translator living in Winnipeg. Her first book of translated poetry, with Michiko Tsuboi, was Are You an Echo: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko, published in 2016. Her own latest collection, Heart's Hydrography, was published in 2022.
Reviews
"I hugely enjoyed reading these early modern German sonnets...Gosh, Greiffenberg's poems are just awfully, unmissably good--immediate, but dense with metaphor, strung tight with rhyme and parataxis but essentially easy to read." (Victoria Moul, "Horace & Friends" Substack)
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