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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.</b></b> <p/>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.<br>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. <p/>This edition is an abridgment of <i>The Complete Poems of Sappho</i>.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Willis Barnstone, PhD, </b>former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. A Guggenheim Fellow, poet, scholar, and memoirist, his many books include <i>The Poetics of Translation</i>, <i>The Other Bible</i>, <i>The New Covenant</i>, <i>With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires</i>, <i>Life Watch</i>, <i>Border of a Dream: The Poems of Antonio Machado</i>, and <i>The Gnostic Bible</i> (with Marvin Meyer). He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Emily Dickinson Award, the W. H. Auden Award, and a PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Special Citation for translation. His most recent book is <i>The Gnostic Bible</i> (with Marvin Meyer).

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