Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho by Willis Barnstone

Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

Willis Barnstone with Sappho (Translator)

316 pages first pub -600 (editions)

nonfiction classics lgbtqia+ poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Sappho is the greatest lyric poet of antiquity. Plato, a century after her death, referred to her as "the Tenth Muse," and Longinos, in his first-century treatise "On the Sublime," uses her verse to exemplify that transcendent quality in literatur...

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