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Sappho Is Burning
To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Sappho Is Burning offers a new reading of this archaic lesbian poet that acknowledges the poet's distance and difference from us and stre...more
Paperback, 213 pages
Published
April 15th 1997
by University of Chicago Press
(first published December 1st 1995)
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I had to read this as an undergrad, and although I am a little sketchy on the specifics at this point, I remember thinking how interesting a study this was. Sappho is an interesting writer/poet/feminist in her own rite, and all the more intriguing because so little is actually known about her. The analysis of her writing, and the speculations about her early influences shed a little light on a figure that is normally so cloaked in mystery. This one is definitely worth picking up if your looki...more
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