Louise Labé
Love Sonnets and Elegies.
New York Review of Books, 2014. NYRB/Poets series. First printing. Translated and edited by Richard Sieburth, with preface by Karin Lessing. 9781590177310 xxi/121 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. English translations appear facing French originals.
"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  revelatory new English version by the award-winning translator Richard  Sieburth."