Word: sappho
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sappho, the famous ancient Greek lesbian poet, is coming to Newton. Really. Well, she'll be represented by local composer Patricia Van Ness, who will present a talk entitled "Sappho, Beauty and Medieval Music Devices: Composing a Premiere for Full Chorus and Soprano Solo." 2 p.m., Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St. 499-4868. FREE...
There is often an odd split-mind at Harvard, where we can study Plato's Symposium and the fragments of Sappho, Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich '51, yet emerge from the seminar room to find only disgust and fear in expressions of homosexual desire on campus. If Harvard and our larger communities are to accept queers, we must accept them culturally as well as politically. We must accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded...
...also a charmer in the lead role of Max) and Rose Troche, and directed by Troche, offers a radical take on lesbians: they're human beings. Imagine! They can be funny and horny. They look for love and, when they're not looking, fall in it. Max, "a carefree Sappho lesbo," hooks up with gawky Ely (V.S. Brodie), who finds it hard to commit to anything, even a haircut. And just like real people -- oh, yes -- lesbians can be long-winded, tortured and smug...
Also available for love-Iron academics are such useful anthologies as The Literary Companion to Sex. This sexy volume includes excerpts from Sappho, the Kama Sutra, and everyone's sensual favorite, the Talmud...
...Sappho in Russian Poetry: Uses and Abuses of the Tenth Muse--by Diana Burgin, professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Coolidge Hall, room...