Description A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.
Sappho's lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.
, 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.