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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries
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ISBN10: 0375724516
ISBN13: 9780375724510
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Aug 12 2003
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.21 Depth: 8.11
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375724510
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Aug 12 2003
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.21 Depth: 8.11
Language: English
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
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
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