The Complete Poems of Sappho

A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet — with a wealth of materials for understanding her work — by a prize-winning poet and translator   Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by ea