Sappho, Author, Jim Powell, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (65p) ISBN 978-0-374-25393-6
Powell ( It Was Fever That Made the World ) has translated all 500-odd verses by the Greek poet Sappho ``that make consecutive sense, however brief, torn, or abruptly interrupted.'' Most of Sappho's writing was lost during later antiquity, but...
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Sappho, Author, Anne Carson, Translator , trans. by Anne Carson. Knopf $27.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-375-41067-3
A classicist at McGill University, Carson has mined Greek literature, and Sappho in particular, to tremendous effect and acclaim in her poetry and essays. Her prose Eros the Bittersweet (1986) discussed Sappho's term "glukupikron" ("s
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Sappho, trans. from the ancient Greek by Dan Beachy-Quick. Tupelo, $21.95 trade paper (238p) ISBN 978-1-946482-81-5
Beachy-Quick (Variations on Dawn and Dusk) seeks “to apprentice myself to the rites of [Sappho of Lesbos’s] voice” in this fine gathering of the ancient Greek poet’s surviving lyrics. He positions one fragment per page, some merely one or two words...
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