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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Sappho, translated by Anne Carson
Carson prints what survives and marks the gaps with brackets, so the absences become part of the reading.
Why you should read this
This is Anne Carson's translation of Sappho's surviving fragments, presented with the gaps and brackets left visible rather than smoothed into complete poems, so the reader sees exactly how little survives. Best for readers who want translation as scholarship as much as poetry.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 600 BCE
- Themes
- Literature
