Brackets and space give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as what is present on the papyrus.Ĭarson’s translation illuminates Sappho’s reflections on love, desire, marriage, exile, cushions, bees, old age, shame, time, chickpeas and many other aspects of the human situation.
In If Not, Winter, Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments in Greek and in English. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Sappho lived on the Island of Lesbos from about 630BC. The complete extant work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
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