The Poetry of Christine de Pizan: A Conversation with Maryann Corbett

Athenaeum Review

Maryann Corbett's translations of three ballades by Christine de Pizan appear in the Winter 2024 issue of Athenaeum Review.

In this conversation: The poet's life and times amidst the Hundred Years' War, the Western Schism and the execution of Joan of Arc; the literary debate on the rights of women; the poet's representation of courtly love; the ballade as a poetic form; and much more!

Maryann Corbett is the author of six books, most recently The O in the Air (Franciscan University Press, 2023). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Dark Horse, the New Statesman, the Hopkins Review online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her poetry has won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and the Richard Wilbur Award; has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and the Poetry Foundation website; and was included in The Best American Poetry 2018. New work is forthcoming in Raritan, Image, and Beloit Poetry Journal.

Christine de Pizan (1364-c. 1430) was the author of The Book of the City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies, among many other works.