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This is by no means Carson’s first foray into classical literature. A professor of the Classics at the University of Michigan, Carson has translated works such as “If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho,” and more recently, “An Oresteia.” Her “Autobiography of Red” is a collection of narrative verse told from the point of view of the mythical figure Geryon. This latest book combines her skills as translator and poet; here, her careful translation of Catullus’ poem is combined...
Take the austere little paperbacks down from the shelf and you can hold the collected works of J.D. Salinger - one novel, three volumes of stories - in the palm of one hand. Like some of his favorite writers - like Sappho, whom we know only from ancient fragments, or the Japanese poets who crafted 17-syllable haiku - Salinger was an author whose large reputation pivots on very little. The first of his published stories that he thought were good enough to preserve appeared in the New Yorker in 1948. Seventeen years later he placed one last story there and drew down...
...lives of a group of Czech political activists and British academics and shuttles back and forth between Cambridge and Prague in the years between the 1968 Soviet invasion and the "velvet revolution" of 1989. It's an exploration of political repression and commitment (with a typically Stoppardian digression into Sappho's poetry), but also a celebration of the rebel rock music that, in Stoppard's view, was as potent a force for revolution as Vaclav Havel's speeches. Scenes are punctuated with the sounds of groups like the Rolling Stones and the Plastic People of the Universe, a Czech band...
...first few pages of its coursepack—a full $15 binder—shock readers with repetitive mention of the word “cunt,” sketches of vaginas, and of course, a Sappho poem. While women are making headway in society, the workplace and politics, FemSex’s claims that, on the cultural liberation front, women and their sexuality have been left behind. But while the class provides a useful outlet for some repressed souls on campus, the irony of its mission eclipses its value...
...Sappho (an American cocker spaniel), Reveur (a Lab) and Zorba (beagle) necked a good bottle-and-a-half each and refused to give up their spots at the front of the bar. Averti, however, was clearly unimpressed with the standard of beverage on offer. The white terrier took a moment to preen her coat as the rest of the pack jostled for position...