Pocket Sappho,The by Willis Barnstone - ISBN: 9781611806915
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Timeless love and longing in Sappho’s enchanting ancient fragments.

Pocket Sappho,The

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    6 August 2019

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Summary

A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.

Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss and longing, desire, and nature speak volumes.

Willis Barnstone’s vivid, contemp…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781611806915
ISBN-10:1611806917
Author:Willis Barnstone
Publisher:Shambhala Publications Inc
Imprint:Shambhala Publications Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:6 August 2019
Weight:180g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
Series:Shambhala Pocket Library
About The Author

Willis Barnstone

Willis Barnstone, PhD, former O’Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. A Guggenheim Fellow, poet, scholar, and memoirist, his many books include The Poetics of Translation, The Other Bible, The New Covenant, With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires, Life Watch, Border of a Dream- The Poems of Antonio Machado, and The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer). He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Emily Dickinson Award, the W. H. Auden Award, and a PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Special Citation for translation. His most recent book is The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer).

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