Results for "Lessing, Karin"

Karin Lessing - born in Germany, raised in the USA, and resident for decades in France - is one of those poets who exist outside the tides of literary fashion, and indeed beyond the ken of the majority of readers, although she has her devoted supporters. This survey of her writing career brings toge... Read More about Collected Poems

Louise Labé, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a rev... Read More about Love Sonnets and Elegies (NYRB Poets)