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Details
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Title
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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Author
Sappho
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Binding
Paperback
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Edition
Reprint
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
416
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Vintage, New York
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Date
2003-08-12
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Features
Bibliography
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Bookseller's Inventory #
K08A-04067
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ISBN
9780375724510 / 0375724516
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Weight
0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
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Dimensions
8.11 x 5.21 x 0.92 in (20.60 x 13.23 x 2.34 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
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Library of Congress subjects
Women - Greece, Sappho
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Dewey Decimal Code
884.2
Summary
A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If Not, Winter Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments in Greek and in English. Brackets and space give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as what is present on the papyrus. Carson's translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love, desire, marriage, exile, cushions, bees, old age, shame, time, chickpeas and many other aspects of the human situation.From the Hardcover edition.
From the publisher
Anne Carson lives in Canada.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the jacket flap
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric--or, to use Sappho's words, as "thin fire . . . racing under skin." By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia.
Excerpt
Fragment 22
]
]work
]face
]
]
if not, winter
]no pain
]
]I bid you sing
of Gongyla, Abanthis, taking up
your lyre as (now again) longing
floats around you.
you beauty. For her dress when you saw it
stirred you. And I rejoice.
In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
I want
Fragment 47
Eros shook my
mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees
Fragment 52
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
Fragment 56
not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this
Fragment 147
someone will remember us
I say
even in another time
Fragment 162
with what eyes?
Media reviews
“[Sappho’s] verse has been elevated to new heights in [this] gorgeous translation.” —The New York Times
“This Sappho is whispering in our ear in a language we can understand.” —Time Out New York
“Carson is in many ways [Sappho’s] ideal translator. . . . Her command of language is honed to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth.” —Los Angeles Times
“A selfless, faithful, and boldly delicate achievement.” —Boston Review
Citations
- Women's Review of Books, 01/01/2004, Page 8
About the author
ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
