Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
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Sappho
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry - among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance - that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.
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Author
Sappho
Pages
160
Publisher
Penguin UK
Published Date
2009-08-06
ISBN
0141931256 9780141931258
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"I’ve been meaning to read Sappho’s poetry for a while now because of her huge impact on the queer and sapphic community. I really appreciated that the book would offer breakdowns of the poems as we read them, and how it would illustrate some of the connections from poem to poem. I wish we had more complete fragments, but I really appreciated diving into what we do have. Sappho has a beautiful prose and style of writing, and I really liked the way it interwoven spoken song with the written word."
Dylan Thomas (she/her)