Complete poems by Pernette Du Guillet and translated by Marta Rijn Finch

This is poetry from France.

Complete poems by Pernette Du Guillet translated by Marta Rijn Finch is published by Iter. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780772720658E12.

Complete Poems, by Pernette Du Guillet and translated by Marta Rijn Finch, brings a sixteenth-century French woman poet into English with the fullness implied by the title. Du Guillet’s work belongs to the Lyon Renaissance and to a literary world where love, learning, gender, and poetic address were all under formal pressure. A complete edition matters because it gives readers more than an excerpted token of historical womanhood. It allows a poet’s range, repetitions, and arguments to appear. I would read this book with attention to how desire speaks when constrained by inherited forms and social expectation. Translation here is recovery, but also encounter: a lyric intelligence crossing centuries without asking to be made modern first.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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