If Not, Winter
by Sappho; Carson, AnneEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-08-12
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
The poetry book of the year, "If Not, Winter" irresistibly combines the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson in what is sure to become the standard translation of Sappho.
Author Biography
Anne Carson lives in Canada.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |||||
| On Sappho | ix | ||||
| On the Text | x | ||||
| On Marks and Lacks | xi | ||||
|
1 | (356) | |||
| Notes | 357 | (27) | |||
| Who's Who | 384 | (9) | |||
| Appendix: Some Exemplary Testimonia | 393 |
Excerpts
Fragment 22
]
]work
]face
]
]
if not, winter
]no pain
]
]I bid you sing
of Gongyla, Abanthis, taking up
your lyre as (now again) longing
floats around you.
you beauty. For her dress when you saw it
stirred you. And I rejoice.
In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
I want
Fragment 47
Eros shook my
mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees
Fragment 52
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
Fragment 56
not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this
Fragment 147
someone will remember us
I say
even in another time
Fragment 162
with what eyes?
]
]work
]face
]
]
if not, winter
]no pain
]
]I bid you sing
of Gongyla, Abanthis, taking up
your lyre as (now again) longing
floats around you.
you beauty. For her dress when you saw it
stirred you. And I rejoice.
In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
I want
Fragment 47
Eros shook my
mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees
Fragment 52
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
Fragment 56
not one girl I think
who looks on the light of the sun
will ever
have wisdom
like this
Fragment 147
someone will remember us
I say
even in another time
Fragment 162
with what eyes?
Excerpted from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
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