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Sappho

Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

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ISBN:	189229513X (ISBN13: 9781892295132)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Lesbos(Greece)
Literary Awards:	Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Poetry (1989)

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This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J.M. Edmonds, who filled in many of Sappho's fragment with his own Greek lines. In Professor Barnstone's brilliant translation, Sappho's work is presented as we have inherited it, in its darkly antiromantic idiom that rejects sentimentality and "prettiness."

Willis Barnstone is one of the most noted translators of today. Barnstone has translated numerous texts, including The Cosmic Fragments of Heraclitus, Greek Lyric Poetry, and a literary translation of the New Testament. He is also the author of New and Selected Poems (1997), Moonbook & Sunbook (1998) and other books of poetry.

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Title	:	Poems
Author	:	Sappho
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	26
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1999 by Green Integer (first published -600)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. LGBT

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Ratings: 4.17 From 4332 Users | 304 Reviews

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Beautiful, the effect time has at editing art. Greek sculpture, the lovely modern, minimalist white marble forms we admire, would in their original states have been fleshed out with paints of the most gaudy colors. In a similar way, Sappho's poems, admired in their current e.e. cummings-like state, would have been fleshed out more, had sections of her poems not been made into papier mache for mummies (I kid you not). Can't help but wish the last section, quotations from sources mentioning

Made me want to learn Greek.

Beautiful, the effect time has at editing art. Greek sculpture, the lovely modern, minimalist white marble forms we admire, would in their original states have been fleshed out with paints of the most gaudy colors. In a similar way, Sappho's poems, admired in their current e.e. cummings-like state, would have been fleshed out more, had sections of her poems not been made into papier mache for mummies (I kid you not). Can't help but wish the last section, quotations from sources mentioning

i'm amazed by this fact too but frankly??? lombardo's translation is one of my favourites

while eyes, the black sleep of night(fr. 151)Sappho has been circling at the edge of my readers vision for some time now. Ive mostly seen her name in connection to Anne Carson, one of my favourite modern-day poets and classicist. Indeed, I decided to turn to the source itself after having read Carsons Eros the Bittersweet , which draws its title from Sapphos fragment 130:Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,seized me.But the source, though replete

This book collects the entire known surviving works of the Greek poet, Sappho, who managed to cause her native island of Lesbos to become permanently associated with female homosexuality and have her own name modified into an adjective. Unfortunately for such an influential woman, her extant works sum to a slim volume of fragments from larger poems. This seems to be a great loss, as what does remain is remarkable.Sappho famously dealt with the love and life of women as seriously as Homer dealt

3.5 /5Stung With Love is a pretty solid choice if one is interested in reading the little we have of Sappho's work. I don't think Carol Ann Duffy's foreword contributed anything worthwhile, but Aaron Poochigian's introduction and translation commentary make for some really interesting reading. That said, having read Anne Carson's translation of Sappho, I must admit Aaron Poochigian's translation pales in comparison just a shade. But that's subjective, of course. Overall, a good introduction to