• CONTENTS


• The Poetry of Sappho


• Sappho of Lesbos


• The Text of Sappho's Poems


• Sappho as Formalist


• Sappho's Meters and Translation


• Notes on the Poems


• Textual Notes


• Abbreviations and Bibliography

A MacArthur Fellow who has taught at Reed College, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley, Jim Powell is the author of two poetry collections, It Was Fever that Made the World and Substrate.

This new edition of The Poetry of Sappho translates all the surviving texts of Sappho that make consecutive poetic sense, including the newly discovered "Brothers Ode," "Cypris fragment," and other papyrus texts published in 2014. The translation is particularly intent on bringing over into English Sappho's formal mastery along with her sense. It includes summary discussions of Sappho's biography and the history of her texts, an essay on the formal character of her work and its tradition, and notes on the poems.