If Not, Winter The Beauty of the Husband Wie deze magnifieke bundel leest

Wie deze magnifieke bundel leest

known as “yellow rain

With both the general reader and the student in mind

Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects — love — and make it this powerful

Originally published in America in 2006 by Leon Works

If Not, Winter The Beauty of the Husband Wie deze magnifieke bundel leestAnne 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