> Ha, I recommend it all the time, Stephen. In fact I read it as a kind
> of long prose poems as much as an essay. It's so beautifully put
> together.
>
> Or as a kind of long, poetic-prose, Preface/Prolegomena to her later
> translation of Sappho, If Not, Winter.
To be totally self-serving, or Sappho serving - for ye of short and/or
declining memories - a selection of my 'translations' of Carson's Sappho
appear in a faux ebook:
Sleeping With Sappho
http://www.fauxpress.com/e/vincent/
Ann Carson is reading at SF State Poetry Center this coming Monday -
Though I have acknowledged her Sappho as the source, I have never sent her a
copy of the the entire mss. - not knowing how my improving may be taken, or
whether I should make a further point of the platform off of which my work
took flight.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Currently home of the Tenderly series,
A serial work in progress.
>
> Doug
> On 10-May-06, at 10:30 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>> I just started reading Ann Carson's, Eros, The Bittersweet - a series
>> of
>> short essays where with both classical literature and philosophy (as
>> well
>> as Flaubert & Stendahl) she explores all sides - it seems - of this
>> love/hate binary dance. It's fascinating and has lots of quotes from
>> unfamiliar and familiar Roman and Greek writers:
>>
>> Eros loves strife and delights in paradoxical outcomes.
>>
>> (oops, lost the page and source!).
>>
>> I think I can recommend the book - particularly if you want to re-fuel
>> the
>> language of the dynamic we apparently inherit! In the mean time, go at
>> it
>> everybody!
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