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Original Title:	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
ISBN:	1844080811 (ISBN13: 9781844080816)
Edition Language:	English

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Sappho

Paperback | Pages: 397 pages

Rating: 4.41 | 7411 Users | 638 Reviews

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I love this book so much that I copied out some of the best lines in thick sharpie onto a shirt that I wore so often it's now terribly stained and faded and rather hard to read. An interesting cyclical thing, sort of, given the flimsiness of what remains of Sappho's works.

Also, I once had a writing teacher who said we should follow the "Sappho rule": every word of your writing should be so good that if there was a great flood or conflagration and only snippets of lines survived, there would still be great beauty and intensity in what was left. Kind of a tall order, but given the state of publishing today, I'd say it's needed now more than ever.

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Title	:	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Author	:	Sappho
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 397 pages
Published	:	2003 by Virago
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. LGBT. GLBT. Queer

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Ratings: 4.41 From 7411 Users | 638 Reviews

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The (allegedly) original lesbian! Pretty sad that only fragments are left from what she wrote. Loved the poems nevertheless and enjoyed the little history lesson after.



This marvelous collection of the extant fragments of verse attributed to Sappho is a glorious spur to the imagination. Sappho was a lyricist, a poet, a musician. It is unknown whether or not she was literate in reading and writing, but her work was collected in writing, and reprinted, but little has survived the centuries. Only one full poem, the ode to Aphrodite, survives whole at twenty-eight lines. Sappho was known and lauded throughout the ancient world for the beauty of her poems

"But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women as sometimes at sunsetthe rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her lightstretches over salt seaequally and flowerdeep fields." -------"someone will remember usI sayeven in another time"(this last one is particularly poignant because it makes up the entirety of the poem. damn.)

maybe i'll put out a proper review later but right now my heart is just aching / bursting with warmth at the same time. these fragments... what would i do to recover them in their full form, tbh. also POETS: USE MORE EPITHETS. smush up words. our sapphic icon would smile at you.

the difference between four stars and five is something categorically different from all other star-number differences. the move from 'i really liked it' to 'it was amazing' is a move away from the the realm of sheer personal pleasure, and toward something externaler. this book was often a pleasure, but that's not why it gets five stars. i could have enjoyed it more. it took me a little while to get into it. at the beginning especially i sometimes found myself flipping through inattentively,

Intimate, piercing, and incisive, Sappho's fragments are as enrapturing as they are reflective. The subjects of her lyrics range from musing about forbidden love to reveling in the passing of time. Paradoxically, the soft musicality of the poet's phrasing pairs extraordinarily well with the intensity of the emotions she describes in her lyrics: at once the fragments read as tender and visceral. Carson's edition makes for an ideal introduction to Sappho's work, as it clearly marks the many gaps