From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek.
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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.
Only one poem has survived complete.
During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics.
From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek