{"product_id":"emblems-of-desire-isbn-9780977857654","title":"Emblems of Desire","description":"A   forgotten masterpiece of French poetry,\u003ci\u003e Emblems of   Desire\u003c\/i\u003e is a selection of 449 love poems first   published in Lyons in 1544. Full of passionate ironies and charged obscurity,   Scève is considered a sixteenth-century Mallarmé. His oblique   self-portraiture laid the groundwork for many contemporary poets. This edition   is accompanied by fifty emblems created by the author. The illustrations and   Latin mottoes contained within each emblem offer poignant, and often witty,   responses to his poems.Richard Sieburth has   performed a magnificent service by translating a large selection of the   book-length love poem 'Délie' by Maurice Scève, one of the greatest French   Renaissance poets, whose work is hardly known in English. He has found a   contemporary equivalent for Scève's extremely compact music and enabled it to   breathe in English, while still retaining the tension of the original. \u003cb\u003e— John Ashbery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Sieburth has performed a miracle of literary invention. He has made   these poems sing. \u003cb\u003e— Paul Auster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The most intense and tightly controlled verse written in the French   Renaissance. \u003cb\u003e— Jerry C. Nash, author of \u003ci\u003eLove Aesthetics of Maurice Scève\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The translations are tours de force, rendering Scève's concentrated phrases   into accessible, often charming English verse. \u003cb\u003e— Margaret M. McGowan, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A true credit to both an exacting and inventive work, Sieburth’s   translations remain the highlight of this handsome collection of scorned   love, an impressive English introduction to the 'Délie'. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e— Rain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecovered, rediscovered early in the twentieth century, the radically   inventive and challenging poetry of Maurice Scève forms an important link in   the history of European lyric from the Renaissance to the present. Its   complexly erotic silences and harmonies speak as vividly to our own deeply   unsettled moment as they must have to that vital circle of poets and   humanists of Lyons, who were among the first in France to explore the   Petrarchan field of desire. What a great gift, to receive these virtuosic   renditions in English from one of our finest living scholars and translators,   Richard Sieburth. \u003cb\u003e— Michael Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is rare to see a book so perfectly equipped to both befriend the   non-specialist reader and aid the scholar. If Scève's work is finally to   enter the mainstream, this is the book that will make it possible. \u003cb\u003e— Jennifer Grotz, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exquisite version, a marvelous contribution. \u003cb\u003e— Harold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003eMaurice   Scève (c.1500–c.1564) was at the center of Lyonnese   côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love.","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301903618277,"sku":"NP9780977857654","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780977857654.jpg?v=1767726191","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/emblems-of-desire-isbn-9780977857654","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}