If Not, Winter Vloekschrift in which poets who lived

in which poets who lived through the uprising were able to turn their experiences into poetry

and it enacts a powerful homage to the human capacity for creation and metamorphosis

” his stroll a “walk / to curse the sidewalks

” and “The Years

political and aesthetic liberty

If Not, Winter Vloekschrift in which poets who livedAnne Carson Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sapphos fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electricor, to use Sapphos