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If Not, Winter by Anne Carson
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson. 2002 Knopf, first edition, 397 pages. Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and classicist. According to a New York Times profile: " For two decades her work has moved — phrase by phrase, line by line, project by improbable project — in directions that a human brain would never naturally move. The approach has won her awards (MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan) and accolades and an electric reputation in the literary world." Here Carson translates Sappho. According to a review in the NYT: "In ''If Not, Winter,'' Ms. Carson's learned footnotes constitute their own poetry. In one she refers to Sappho's use of the phrase ''rosey-fingered moon.'' How ''startling is the fecundity of sea, field and memory which appears to flow from this uncanny moon and fill the nightworld of the poem,'' she writes."
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson. 2002 Knopf, first edition, 397 pages. Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and classicist. According to a New York Times profile: " For two decades her work has moved — phrase by phrase, line by line, project by improbable project — in directions that a human brain would never naturally move. The approach has won her awards (MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan) and accolades and an electric reputation in the literary world." Here Carson translates Sappho. According to a review in the NYT: "In ''If Not, Winter,'' Ms. Carson's learned footnotes constitute their own poetry. In one she refers to Sappho's use of the phrase ''rosey-fingered moon.'' How ''startling is the fecundity of sea, field and memory which appears to flow from this uncanny moon and fill the nightworld of the poem,'' she writes."
Condition: VG