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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. 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.

Genre
LGBTmythologymyths and folkloreromanceancient world
Themes
LGBTfeminismwomenwriters
Setting
ancient greeceancient historyantiquitygreececollege
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 397 pages
Form
poetry

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