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> 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! > Douglas Barbour > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 > (780) 436 3320 > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > White parchment trees > Recording > The brief lives of insects > > An automatic writing > Telling all and nothing > > David Campbell