![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Complete with Carson's introduction and notes, it will become the standard translation of Sappho for our time. Please check your requests before visiting. FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, AUGUST 2003. Brackets and space give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as. If not, winter : fragments of Sappho / translated by Anne Carson National Library of Australia Due to major building activity, some collections are unavailable. FRAGMENTS OF SAPPHO translated by ANNE CARSON vintage books a division of random house, inc. IF NOT, WINTER gives us an extraordinary ancient poet brought alive by a brilliantly empathetic contemporary poet. Poet/scholar Anne Carson presents all of Sapphos fragments in Greek and in English. 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.Ĭarson says of her method of translation: 'I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho shows through.' And certainly her translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love and desire, her companions and rivals, the goddess Aphrodite, her own daughter, Kleis. From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek.ĭuring her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. ![]()
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