Description A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.
His most recent book is The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer)..
Auden Award, and a PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Special Citation for translation.
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He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Emily Dickinson Award, the W.
A Guggenheim Fellow, poet, scholar, and memoirist, his many books include The Poetics of Translation, The Other Bible, The New Covenant, With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires, Life Watch, Border of a Dream: The Poems of Antonio Machado, and The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer).
About the Author Willis Barnstone, Ph D, former O\'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University.
This edition is an abridgment of The Complete Poems of Sappho.
Willis Barnstone\'s vivid, contemporary translation, along with his introduction and notes, sheds new light on the spirit and mystique of this ancient Greek poet.
Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss and longing, desire, and nature speak volumes.
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E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today.
Sappho\'s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.
Description A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator
