$49.82
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2003
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844080816 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844080811 |
| Author: | Anne Carson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 325g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
This collection of her [Sappho’s] fragments gives you everything, for the first time…
a superb version…these new poems, made by Carson out of Sappho, are subtle, beautiful, precise, moving. - Margaret Reynolds, THE TIMES
This collection of her [Sappho’s] fragments gives you everything, for the first time… - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYThe 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 TELEGRAPHImaginatively presented and superbly prefaced, this collection is both heartrending and uplifiting. - INDEPENDENTAbout The Author
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.
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