![]() ![]() Through this translation, Anne Carson attempts to convey the best of her work, through both presentation-sometimes the spacing makes the poem, as with verse 26-and wording, as she discusses in her final notes of the book.įor me, half the appeal of this edition was the work put into translation notes by Carson. ![]() Believed to have written 8 or 9 books, her lover Megara, daughter Kleis, and enemy Andromeda all appear within these texts. Sappho (c.630-c.570BCE), one of Ancient Greece’s Nine Lyric Poets, is an absolutely gorgeous poet and writer, one who’s been the subject of much academic discourse. ![]() Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsĪnd your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayīut rather you would speak about what is just ![]()
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