If Not, Winter

Fragments of Sappho

Ranked #17 in Love Poem, Ranked #28 in Ancient Greecesee more rankings.

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. 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. less

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Bettany Hughes This is a collection of fragments of Sappho’s poems. They are so beautiful, I would recommend them to anyone. (Source)


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