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Romances - Poems (Paperback)
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Romances - Poems (Paperback)
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List price R498
Loot Price R408
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You Save R90 (18%)
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In this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes
contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back
to the literary tradition of courtly love. Instead of bachelor
knights bemoaning their allegedly cruel beloveds, Romances
emphasizes the voices of female troubadours, along with those of
historical figures such as Dante's wife, Petrarch's Laura, and Anne
Boleyn. Ampleman also incorporates the work of the Italian
Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa, mentioned in Rilke's Duino
Elegies, through a series of adaptations of her verse. Elsewhere, a
contemporary sonnet sequence dedicated to Courtney Love shows the
1990s grunge rocker as subject, object, performer, and mother. As
her poems reflect on popular romantic ideas about the past, the
means by which elegies romanticize the dead, or the conventional
romance of a happy marriage, Ampleman addresses a range of romantic
entanglements: courtly and commonplace, sentimental and prosaic,
toxic and mutual.
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