Poems translated by Lee Bahan

Lee Harlin Bahan is the author of two collections of Petrarch’s sonnets, A Year of Mourning (Able Muse Press, 2017), named a special honoree for the 2016 Able Muse Book Award, and To Wrestle with the Angel: Sonnets from Petrarch’s “Chapbook” of 1337 (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Lee will participate in a virtual Translation Special reading event with three Able Muse Press authors on February 19, 2022.

  • Petrarch’s Poem 269, from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated from Italian by Lee Harlin Bahan

    The high column and the green laurel