ARGONAUT BOOKS

From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson, this is a new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. Reviews a superb version...these new poems, made by Carson out of Sappho, are subtle, beautiful, precise, moving.Margaret Reynolds, THE TIMESThis collection of her [Sappho's] fragments gives you everything, for the first time...INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYThe beautiful blur of Sappho's work, the rhythms, the ornate grammar, the singing sounds she teases out of rare words...are impossible to match.DAILY TELEGRAPHImaginatively prese...Read More