from Les Amours

Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) was the founder of the famous “Pleaide” group of French poets. His AGNI sonnet can be found in his Amours, which was first published in 1552.

Peter Campion is the author of three books of poetry, Other People (2005), The Lions (2009), and El Dorado (2013), all from University of Chicago Press. He was the 2010 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome, and 2011–2012 Guggenheim Fellow. He directs the MFA program at the University of Minnesota. (updated 4/2016)

Campion’s Other People was reviewed in AGNI Online by Robert Pinsky.