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Wonder-Work

Wonder-Work

Original author: Catharina Greiffenberg

Translated by: Sarah Klassen, Joanne Epp

An unusual poet from the Baroque period meets 21st century poet-translators in this exceptional book. Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg’s intense devotional poems are matched with innovative and moving new English versions from Canadians Joanne Epp, Sally Ito, and Sarah Klassen. This is astonishing Metaphysical poetry: original, provocative, reverent.

The translators have chosen 65 poems from 300 in Greiffenberg’s best-known work, Geistliche Sonette, Lieder und Gedichte. The sonnets in Wonder-Work are presented in both German and English.

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AUTHOR

Sarah Klassen

Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Manitoba’s Interlake. Now retired, she previously enjoyed a career teaching high school English. An accomplished traveller, poet, and fiction writer, she has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the High Plains Award for Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, and Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History. The Tree Of LifeI is her sixth poetry collection.


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Joanne Epp

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Joanne Epp spent several years in Ontario and now makes her home in Winnipeg with her husband and two sons. Currently she serves as assistant organist at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church. Her poetry has appeared in journals– The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Light Ekphrastic, and others — and in one anthology. Cattail Skyline is her second poetry collection.


AUTHOR

Catharina Greiffenberg

Poet/translator Joanne Epp is a Winnipeg poet and musician with two published collections, Eigenheim (2015) and Cattail Skyline (2021).


Awards

  • Silver Medal for Poetry Illumination Book Awards 2024, Runner-up
  • Word Guild Specialty Book Award 2024, Winner
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    Details

    Dimensions:

    168 Pages
    8in * 5.5in * .4in
    350gr

    Published:

    November 01, 2023

    Publisher:

    CMU Press

    ISBN:

    9781987986143

    Book Subjects:

    POETRY / Canadian

    Language:

    mul

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