Sappho: A New Translation BOTY_2025 A powerful and accesible bilingual

A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens

they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees

And then there’s a murder

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Sappho: A New Translation BOTY_2025 A powerful and accesible bilingualThese hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, directthe best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.