If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
by Sappho and Anne Carson
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"A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If Not, Winter Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments in Greek and in English. Brackets and space give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as what is present on the papyrus. Carson's translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love, desire, marriage, exile, cushions, bees, old age, shame, time, chickpeas and many other aspects of the human situation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiction, Poetry, Translations into English, Women, Sappho -- Translations into English., LGBTQ poetryPeople
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If Not, Winter
November 6, 2003, Virago Press Ltd
Paperback
- New Ed edition
1844080811 9781844080816
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
2002, Alfred A. Knopf, distributed by Random House, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
in English and Ancient Greek
- 1st ed.
0375410678 9780375410673
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Poetry in English and Greek.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-383).
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A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If Not, Winter Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments in Greek and in English. Brackets and space give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as what is present on the papyrus. Carson's translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love, desire, marriage, exile, cushions, bees, old age, shame, time, chickpeas and many other aspects of the human situation.From the Hardcover edition.
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