A German metaphysical
A new translation of sonnets by Catherina Regina von Greiffenberg
A little while ago a poet and editor in Canada sent me a copy of Wonder-Work: Selected Sonnets of Catherina Regina von Greiffenberg, translated by Joanne Epp, Sally Ito and Sarah Klassen.1 Von Greiffenberg (1633-1694) was a seventeenth century Austrian poet of whom (I have to confess) I had never heard. I did not study German at school, and though I’ve b…
