Pocket Sappho,The av Willis Barnstone

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<b><b>A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.</b></b><br><br>Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. 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.<br>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.<br><br>This edition is an abridgment of <i>The Complete Poems of Sappho</i>.