Andromeda

by Therese Bohman

“Sometimes I’ve thought that those disjointed segments are so powerful because that’s the way life is. That’s how you remember it with hindsight, like a series of fragments. Reading Sappho is like reliving your life, in a concentrated form.

I read a biography of Ovid, he had been exiled to the Black Sea, to what is Romania today and was then the remotest outpost of the Roman Empire. “Here I am a barbarian, because no one understands what I say,” he wrote,