If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Style:Paperback and loving our stories

and loving our stories

they aren’t even speaking to each other

and the gradual realization that it can’t exist

emotionally wrenching

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Style:Paperback and loving our storiesBy: Sappho Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sapphos fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electricor, to use Sapphos