another reason why her work is not translated often and is hard to translate
is because much of her work has been distroyed and most of what we have
found is bits and pieces. even some of her writings were found written on
the wrap around an egyption mummy.
-annie
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:17:17 -0600 (MDT), [log in to unmask] wrote:
I'm sure you're right about her untranslatability, Jon
but I'd nominate Ann Carson's delicately astonishing _Eros: The
Bittersweet_ as perhaps the finest resposne in our time, although I also
thoroughly enjoyed Page Du Bois's _Sappho Is Burning_...
Douglas Barbour
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