Stung with Love Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Reviews
The only thing to dislike about this is that we have so little of Sappho's poetry. Booooo. Best read out loud.
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!!! this is everything i wanted and more.
when she says 'but i must suffer further, worthless as i am......' i mean, same. sappho is my master, it's been decided. i just felt the book sometimes all over the place and i kinda lost focus... my bad tho. 4.5
Highlights
[...] the revelation flutters
My ventricles, my sternum and stomach.
[...] double consciousness develops naturally in women in a male-prominent society, who are 'like a linguistic minority in a culture whose public actions are all conducted in the majority language. To participate even passively in the public arena the minority must be bilingual; the majority feels no such need to learn the minority's language.'