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If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho by Sappho; Anne Carson
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho' s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged ...Show more
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (PB) by Sappho; Anne Carson
Category: Gift
If Not, Winter irresistibly combines the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson in what is sure to become the standard translation of Sappho for our time. Presented with the Greek on facing pages, her verses appear here as if on the ragged ...Show more
Massaging Himmler by Carson Anne M
Category: Biography
Set in Nazi Germany, Massaging Himmler: A Poetic Biography of Dr Felix Kersten tells in verse the remarkable story of a little-known humanitarian. Kersten was a Finnish-born therapeutic masseur who found himself at the centre of the Nazi web, treating Reichsf hrer Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS and t ...Show more
Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
From Anne Carson, the award-winning Canadian author of Autobiography of Red, comes a landmark collection that stretches the boundaries of genre, pressing the traditional form of the essay into new service. In succinct and astonishingly beautiful prose and verse, Anne Carson exposes the fragile differenc ...Show more
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry & Plays
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author. Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobe ...Show more