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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Shambhala; Original edition (March 10, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590306139
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590306130
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreener than grass...
By Jan Dierckx on April 23, 2009
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The title of my review is a fragment of a famous poem by Sappho. I challenge you to find that poem. If you do let me know.

Do I have to introduce Sappho? From Antiquity till now she's a shining star. According to Plato she was the tenth muse and someone called her poetry "as refreshing as a morning breeze".
Is Sappho a lesbian? By many readers Sappho is regarded as such. I'm not saying that this isn't true but to answer that question we should know her better because too little is left of her work to say anything with certainty.

In Antiquity decent women were supposed to work in the kitchen and to raise their children, nothing more. But there were exceptions.
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what's modern Turkey. Her poems are vivid and she needs only a few words to describe essential human feelings. For instance she calls solitude: "this icy numbness of being alone".

Sappho excels also in describing nature - something you won't find often in Ancient literature.
" Wedding of Andromache " is one of the most vivid descriptions in the poetry of Antiquity. It gives an almost journalistic account of the homecoming of Hector and Andromache.

( Nice to know: from Sappho's poems remain about 500 lines. All Tragedies by Aeschylus have a total of 8144 lines. Conclusion: What's left of Sappho's poems is almost next to nothing.)

Barnstone gives a translation in modern and easy to read English. It renders the delicacy and tenderness of Sappho's poems.
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5.0 out of 5 starsPowerful Sappho...
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Even as fragments the words on these pages are stunningly beautiful. It leaves me with a longing for more...but the rest is buried in the sands of time.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent
By JOHN Gorski on November 19, 2013
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A great classic come to life. And a must read for all people seeking new look at modern life. EXCELLENT
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5.0 out of 5 starsBarnstone does Sappho, nice
By Mark Statman on January 23, 2015
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Barnstone is one of our great translators and a fine poet. Balance this with Carson's Sappho fragments and you have a bigger picture.
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By MAC daddy on March 1, 2015
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Wonderful to read and gives insight to a time and language that otherwise seems to be lost
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