CLAUDIA KEELAN is the author of six books of poetry, most recently O, Heart (2014). Her honors include the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books and The Jerome Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. Truth of My Songs: The Poems of the Trobairitz is her first book of translation. She is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she edits Interim.
"While the troubadours have been the focus of considerable
scholarly and aesthetic attention, their female counterparts are
much less known, particularly among contemporary poets. Truth of My
Songs opens a wide window onto the ways in which medieval women of
this particular class and place managed power and desire--and also
gives us an evanescent sense of a dramatically distant world, one
with radically different logics, senses, and songs. Through
Keelan's translations and her historically evocative annotations,
we get to re-inhabit it in vivid glimpses that defy time."--Cole
Swensen, co-editor of the Norton anthology American Hybrid
(1/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)
While the troubadours have been the focus of considerable scholarly
and aesthetic attention, their female counterparts are much less
known, particularly among contemporary poets. Truth of My Songs
opens a wide window onto the ways in which medieval women of this
particular class and place managed power and desire and also gives
us an evanescent sense of a dramatically distant world, one with
radically different logics, senses, and songs. Through Keelan s
translations and her historically evocative annotations, we get to
re-inhabit it in vivid glimpses that defy time. Cole Swensen,
co-editor of the Norton anthology American Hybrid"
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