When Sappho’s fragments are better than everyone else’s complete poems you know she’s an actual goddess. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho unknown Edition [Paperback(2003)] at Amazon.com. Her most recent poetry book is Float (2016) and her most recent translation is Bakkhai (2017), from Euripides’ The Bacchae. How spellbinding and redolent Sappho's fragments are. Can a bed-ridden 20th-century detective solve a 500-year-old crime? Exquisitely hand-bound in full-grain leather, this edition of the first great work of history features an exclusive new introduction by Peter Frankopan and fabulous illustrations by Nick Hayes. If Not, Winter irresistibly combines the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson in what is sure … Was nicht kaputt ist, muss man auch nicht reparieren. A Storm of Swords is illustrated by award-winning artist Jonathan Burton. Werbefrei streamen oder als CD und MP3 kaufen bei Amazon.de. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments. Coleman Barks’s sparkling translations of the writings of 13th-century poet and mystic Rumi, perfectly complemented by Marian Bantjes’s spectacular binding and intricate Islamic-inspired patterning. Indeed, it's quite a waste to think that most of her works are lost forever and that we must rely on our imagination in envisioning this stunning arrangement of words ("sweetworded desires", "goldsandaled Dawn", "piercing breezes") sung accompanied by the gentleness of the lyre — wooing, proclaiming, praising. if i weren't already a lesbian, this would turn me into one, Intimate, piercing, and incisive, Sappho's fragments are as enrapturing as they are reflective. 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