"Lisa Ampleman's Romances mixes the contemporary and the historical as it speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love, in which a supposedly weak male poet addresses a cruel beloved who allegedly has all the power, even though that woman is silent. Instead, Ampleman's poems allow readers to hear from female troubadours, as well as Petrarch's Laura and Dante's wife. The collection also gives voice to Italian Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa, mentioned in Rilke's Duino Elegies, through a series of adaptations of her ...
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"Lisa Ampleman's Romances mixes the contemporary and the historical as it speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love, in which a supposedly weak male poet addresses a cruel beloved who allegedly has all the power, even though that woman is silent. Instead, Ampleman's poems allow readers to hear from female troubadours, as well as Petrarch's Laura and Dante's wife. The collection also gives voice to Italian Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa, mentioned in Rilke's Duino Elegies, through a series of adaptations of her poems. In a sonnet sequence dedicated to Courtney Love, Ampleman shows the 1990s grunge rocker as subject, object, performer, and mother. Drawing on literary traditions from the medieval to the contemporary, Romances surveys a range of romantic engagements: courtly and commonplace, sentimental and prosaic, toxic and mutual"--
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