A01=Lisa Ampleman
Author_Lisa Ampleman
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courtly love tradition
Courtney Love
Dante
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female poets
female troubadours
Gaspara Stampa
Gemma Donati
medieval literary tropes
Petrarch
Rainer Marie Rilke
trobairitz
Product details
- ISBN 9780807171196
- Weight: 126g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2020
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Lisa Ampleman is the author of Full Cry. Her poetry has appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Image, the Massachusetts Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio, where she is the managing editor of the Cincinnati Review and the poetry series editor for Acre Books.
