If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho (Translated By Anne Carson)

Rating: 5/5

02/27/2020 - 02/27/2020

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”

My friend Sophie gave me this book. Sapphic Sophie.

I think I'll treasure it forever.


Synopsis

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. 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.