Word: sappho
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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...