Lynne Lawner

“These are very delicate poems by a young woman just starting out in the poetryworld who has a pronounced lyrical gift. Short, compressed, yet musical poemssuch as “For Alicia, on the Loss of her Eye”, “Puglia”, “Contingencies”, “APassion Like Catherine’s”, … >>

“In her long, distinguished, ever-evolving career, Maria Luisa Spaziani has written poems of a remarkable decisiveness and beauty that stand among the greatest in post-war Italian poetry. Deeply informed by a great lyric tradition which she has used for her … >>

“Lynne Lawner’s extraordinary volume Harlequin on the Moon rescues commedia from the picturesque purgatory of romantic fantasy and restores its characters to the lascivious, sensual, grotesque, cruel, absurd and dangerously political terrain where they have always thrived. Lawner has achieved … >>

Review in Library Journal of Lives of the Courtesans: Portraits of the Renaissance (Rizzoli International, 1986): “During the Renaissance courtesans became the personification of ancient love goddesses in art and literature, and, according to Lawner, it is difficult to separate … >>

“The real importance of I Modi probably lies in the brief tantalizing glimpse it gives of a Renaissance Italy far different from the one we learned about in school – a world where a few privileged people cultivated sex as … >>

“Gramsci’s martyrdom is relevant to his subsequent fame, for it was the Letters from Prison, first published in an incomplete edition in 1947 and now finally selected and translated into English by Lynne Lawner with a lucid and useful introduction … >>