Description: Title: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Author: Sappho Publisher: Vintage Binding: Paperback Pages: 416 Dimensions: 8.11h x 5.21w x 0.92d Product Weight: 0.69 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780375724510 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 Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: If Not, Winter : Fragments of Sappho
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2003
Topic: Women Authors, European / General, Ancient & Classical
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry
Item Weight: 10 oz
Author: Sappho
Item Length: 8 in
Book Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
