num_pages: 152
description: This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho’s line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J. M. Edmonds, who filled in many of Sappho’s fragment with his own Greek lines. In Professor Barnstone’s brilliant translation, Sappho’s work is presented as we have inherited it, in its darkly antiromantic idiom that rejects sentimentality and “prettiness.”Willis Barnstone is one of the most noted translators of today. He has translated numerous texts, including The Cosmic Fragments of Heraclitus , Greek Lyric Poetry , the Old Testament’s erotic book The Song of Songs , and a literary translation of the New Testament. He is also the author of New and Selected Poems (1997), Moonbook &amp; Sunbook (1998) and other books of poetry.
language: English
title: Poems
titlecomplete: Poems
genres: Classics, LGBT, Feminism, History, Lesbian, Ancient, Mythology, Poetry, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 8722
places: Lesbos
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Green Integer