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Author photo. Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original, <br>Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy <br>(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)

Sappho

Author of Sappho: A New Translation

Includes the names: Sappho, Safona, Sappho, Sapfó, Sappho, Sappho, Sapho.,, Sapphô, Σαπφώ, Sapphô ... (see complete list), Sappho of Lesbos, Sappho of Lesbos

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Works by Sappho

Sappho: A New Translation 929 copies, 11 reviews
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho 783 copies, 16 reviews
Poems and Fragments 433 copies, 11 reviews
The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics) 182 copies, 1 review
Greek Lyric: Sappho and Alcaeus 160 copies, 3 reviews
Women's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions) 125 copies, 3 reviews
Come Close 82 copies, 2 reviews
Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets 82 copies
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics) 75 copies, 2 reviews
The Complete Poems of Sappho 68 copies, 1 review
Poesie 52 copies, 1 review
Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho 50 copies
The Songs of Sappho 37 copies, 1 review
Lyrics in the original Greek 36 copies, 1 review

Iltatähti, häälaulu 32 copies

Gedichten 31 copies

The Complete Works of Sappho 29 copies

The Poetry of Sappho 22 copies

Le désir 20 copies

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics 20 copies

Sapfon runoja 17 copies

Sappho : memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation 17 copies

Liederen van Lesbos 16 copies

Sappho Poems: A New Version (Sun and Moon Classics) 15 copies

Sappho: The Art of Loving Women 13 copies, 1 review

Safo (Spanish Edition) 13 copies

Sappho Through English Poetry 11 copies

Strophen und Verse 10 copies

Sappho 9 copies

Fragment 31 {Lobel and Page} 9 copies, 1 review

Liriche e frammenti. Testo greco a fronte 8 copies, 1 review

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Greek Lyrics (Contributor) 389 copies, 3 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Contributor) 347 copies, 2 reviews
The Portable Greek Reader (Contributor, some editions) 306 copies
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (Contributor) 193 copies, 2 reviews
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (Contributor) 156 copies, 1 review
7 Greeks (Contributor) 134 copies, 1 review
The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho… (Contributor) 43 copies
Lyrica Graeca Selecta (Oxford Classical Texts) (Author) 27 copies
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (Contributor) 20 copies
Van Homerus tot Van Lennep : Griekse en Latijnse literatuur in Nederlandse… (Author) 4 copies
All Acts of Love & Pleasure : a Journal of Wiccan and Pagan Erotica, Vol.… (Contributor) 3 copies
Månen : fra den indre verden til det ydre rum (Author, some editions) 1 copy, 1 review
Anthologia lyrica IV: Poetae melici: Monodia, Fragmenta adespota (Author) 1 copy

Grieksche lyriek in Nederlandsche verzen overgebracht door P. C. Boutens… (Contributor) 1 copy

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Anne Carson

Los Angeles Public Library - Central Library, Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 7:15pm

Anne Carson (Autobiography of Red, Decreation, Men in the Off Hours, Plainwater, The Beauty of the Husband, If Not, Winter, Caretaking a New Soul, Red Doc>)

Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry; and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry–the first woman to do so; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan. (added from Random House)… (more)

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12

Anne Carson

New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 7pm

Anne Carson (Autobiography of Red, Decreation, Men in the Off Hours, Plainwater, The Beauty of the Husband, If Not, Winter, Caretaking a New Soul, Red Doc>)

Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry; and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry–the first woman to do so; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan. (added from Random House)… (more)

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11

Anne Carson

The First Parish in Cambridge, Monday, March 11, 2013 at 7pm

Anne Carson (Autobiography of Red, Decreation, Men in the Off Hours, Plainwater, The Beauty of the Husband, If Not, Winter, Caretaking a New Soul, Red Doc>)

Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry; and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry–the first woman to do so; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan. (added from Random House)… (more)

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5

Anne Carson

Nicola's Books, Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 7pm

Anne Carson (Autobiography of Red, Decreation, Men in the Off Hours, Plainwater, The Beauty of the Husband, If Not, Winter, Caretaking a New Soul, Red Doc>)

Anne Carson was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry; and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry–the first woman to do so; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan. (added from Random House)… (more)

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4

Ancient Greek Poetry

Poets House, Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:30pm

Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho.; Yopie Prins discusses Homer and Sappho.

• 6:30pm A Performance of Bracko with Anne Carson, Robert Currie and friends • 7:00pm Passwords: Yopie Prins on Homer and Sappho This evening dedicated to classical Greek poetry begins with a performance of Bracko, orchestrated by poet/translator Anne Carson and artist Robert Currie, based on Carson's translations If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. Scholar Yopie Prins, author of Victorian Sappho and several essays on the poet, will present a talk on Homer's influence on Sappho. $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members (rmharris)… (more)

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630 - 612 BCE circa

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Mytilene, Lesbos

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Syracuse (ancient Greek city on Sicily)

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