false 6286091 3 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1244045505m/6286091.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6286091.Leukadia 637326 E. Tracy Grinnell 53 11 5 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 09:50:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 09:54:43 -0700 2009 Leukadia re-envisions Sappho as a litmus for our own ends and limits, the poet a double that figures the patriarch’s fear and the margin’s desire, “Echo that won’t echo” until we learn to assemble our selves around the things it refuses to say. As Grinnell describes Sappho (and Helen & Cassandra) in the exchange with Bhanu Kapil at the end:

“Multivocal echo chambers—at the same time, the “striking” word for deep sleep: [koma:], the trance, the sleep, the silence silenced, the spoken for—the threshold speech encounters, the threshold that prevents speech, or distorts—trapped on one side of the mirror—madness!—the fugue—”
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