Sappho - If Not Winter - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In this "gorgeous translation" (The New York Times) one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments in Greek and in English as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric or to use Sappho's words as thin fire racing under skin. " Carson is in many ways Sappho's ideal translator. Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text respectful yet imaginative results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth." Los Angeles Times
Title: If Not Winter
Author(s): Sappho
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780375724510
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/12/2003