Status Updates From If Not, Winter: Fragments o...

i finished all the poems! i’ll probably reread them after or while reading the notes. absolutely gorgeous work, mind boggling that this was thousands of years ago. Sappho is a tru Lover

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a new experience reading-wise! this is a collection of the surviving poems of Sappho, delicately put together in a way that presumably resembles the original work in a modern presentation. already the first poem is woefully romantic (“Who, O Sappho, is wronging you?”)

i love the brackets as indicators for illegible or destroyed text; it genuinely does elevate the experience a tad

“someone will remember us
i say
even in another time”

]among mortal women, know this
]from every care
]you could release me
]
]dewy riverbanks
]to last all night long
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