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  • Published: 6 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9781611806915
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $29.99

The Pocket Sappho




A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.

A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.

Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss and longing, desire, and nature speak volumes.
Willis Barnstone’s vivid, contemporary translation, along with his introduction and notes, sheds new light on the spirit and mystique of this ancient Greek poet.

This edition is an abridgment of The Complete Poems of Sappho.

  • Published: 6 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9781611806915
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $29.99

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Praise for The Pocket Sappho

"Mysterious, mellifluous Sappho shines anew in this glorious translation."--Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses

"This collection is absolutely stunning in every respect."--Carolyn Forche, author of The Country Between Us and The Blue Hour

"The finest among Barnstone's prodigious achievements."--Jim Harrison

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