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If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
Anne Carson
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Description for If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
Paperback. * The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 276.
From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Only one poem has survived complete. In IF NOT, WINTER, Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written. Carson says of her method of translation: 'I like to think that, the more I ... Read more
From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Only one poem has survived complete. In IF NOT, WINTER, Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written. Carson says of her method of translation: 'I like to think that, the more I ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844080816
SKU
V9781844080816
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99-95
About Anne Carson
Anne Carson is the Director of Graduate Studies, Classics, at McGill University. She was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been the recipient of a 1996 Lannan Award and a 1997 Pushcart Prize for poetry. She was the recipient of the 2001 T.S. Eliot prize for poetry.
Reviews for If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
Imaginatively presented and superbly prefaced, this collection is both heartrending and uplifiting.
INDEPENDENT
The beautiful blur of Sappho's work, the rhythms, the ornate grammar, the singing sounds she teases out of rare words...are impossible to match.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
This collection of her [Sappho's] fragments gives you everything, for the first time...
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
... Read more
INDEPENDENT
The beautiful blur of Sappho's work, the rhythms, the ornate grammar, the singing sounds she teases out of rare words...are impossible to match.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
This collection of her [Sappho's] fragments gives you everything, for the first time...
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
... Read more