If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Sappho)(Paperback)

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Sappho)(Paperback)

In this 'gorgeous translation' (The New York Times), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived

Complete Poems and Fragments (Sappho)(Paperback / softback)

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (Sappho)(Paperback)

More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving

The Love Songs of Sappho (Sappho)(Paperback)

Called the 'Tenth Muse' by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned

Greek Lyric (Sappho)(Pevná vazba)

This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal

The Complete Poems of Sappho (Barnstone Willis)(Paperback)

Sappho's thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years--certainly a record for poetry of any kind--and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique

Zoo of the New - A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon(Paperback / softback)

Sappho Is Burning (DuBois Page)(Paperback)

To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Sappho Is Burning offers a new reading of this archaic

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (Finglass P. J.)(Paperback)

No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a continuing fascination with her work down the centuries. The Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides

Antigonick (Carson Anne)(Paperback)

Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. This paperback edition includes a new

The Lesbian Lyre: Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st Century (Duban Jeffrey M.)(Pevná vazba)

Hailed by Plato as the 'Tenth Muse' of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity's greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What's left of her writing, and what we know of her,

Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets (Sappho)(Paperback)

A lovely collection of poetry. -- Book Scrounger In this soul-stirring collection of timeless verse, five legendary female poets address life's pains and sorrows as well as its joys and renewals. The poems appeal to the heart, providing companionship on the rugged path that all must tread. The

A Leap of Faith (Ashley Trisha)(Paperback)

Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached 30 but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realizes that she's on the slippery slope to the big four-oh! With the thought suddenly lodged in her mind that she's a mere cat's whisker away from becoming a single eccentric female living

Art & Lies - A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. This book features a question and a quest: How shall I

Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems (McClatchy J. D.)(Pevná vazba)

From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garc a Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James

Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments (Heraclitus (of Ephesus ))(Paperback)

This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally

Fragments of the Lost (Miranda Megan)(Paperback / softback)

If Winter Comes, Tell It I'm Not Here (Ciraolo Simona)(Pevná vazba)

Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Epictetus)(Paperback)

'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into

Fragments (Heraclitus)(Paperback)

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent

Fragments of my Father - A Memoir of Madness, Love and Family Secrets (Mills Sam)(Paperback / softback)

Sleeping Lord - And Other Fragments (Jones David)(Paperback / softback)

Jones's visionary collection of poems and fragments published in the months before his death, reissued in paperback with a cover based on the artist's original

Worry Box (Chiew Suzanne)(Paperback / softback)

Murray Bear has lots of worries. What if the waterfall he's visiting is too loud? What if he's not very good at climbing? And what if all his friends laugh at him? With the help of his sister, Milly, Murray makes a special box in which to keep all his worries. But can the worry box really help?

The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture (Hazony Yoram)(Paperback)

What if the Hebrew Bible wasn't meant to be read as 'revelation'? What if it's not really about miracles or the afterlife - but about how to lead our lives in this world? The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture proposes a new framework for reading the Bible. It shows how biblical authors used narrative