Before we embark on our journey, a disclaimer: Anna Burke is a former professor and a friend, which is why I hesitated to write about In the Roses of Pieria. But who am I to second guess optics, and why should I let that get in the way of sharing one of my favorite moody OctoberRead More
Scattered Shreds of Sapphic Poetry—If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! My girlfriend’s and my 10-year anniversary was this month, and I figured it was well past time we bought our own volume of Sappho. For those who don’t know, Sappho was a poet from the island of Lesbos who lived around the turn ofRead More
Danika reviews Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman
I always want to know more about Sappho, but perhaps that’s a doomed quest. No matter how many books I pick up about her, the truth is, we just don’t know very much. Searching for Sappho doesn’t claim to uncover anything previously unknown about Sappho, but it is a serviceable overview of what is established about herRead More