If Not, Winter

by Sappho; Carson, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780375724510
• ISBN10: 0375724516
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-12
• Publisher: Vintage

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
If Not, Winter	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?

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Excerpted from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
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