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After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz

Just got back from a local street pride rally- mostly positive honks & waves from cars- a few denigrating shouts. Stopped in to pick up a hold at the library & they had a bug display of books, pins, flags for Pride month. #pride #indivisible

TheBookHippie Love it!!!! Love is so much easier. It always amazes me -the hate mongers… 5mo

IriDas Glad to hear your library is doing stuff for pride. Ours did nothing this year. :( makes me a bit more focused on my Master‘s though (MLIS). I never thought being a librarian would put a person on the frontline of anything. 5mo

kspenmoll @TheBookHippie Hate is soul destroying. Love is easier & leaves one full of light & joy. (edited) 5mo

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kspenmoll @IriDas We have a marvelous library, which is why how little T is treating libraries and librarians disgusts & enrages me so. Fortunately our town/state is all about libraries. 5mo

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll ♥️ 5mo

IriDas So glad your town is sticking to it. Traditionally, there was never an issue in ours. Just this year. I‘m so tired of the cowardice of people bowing to Conservatives and their phobias. 5mo

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Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches | Ellen Greene

repost for @Catsandbooks:

June 2025 theme: Sapphic Romance

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Read at your own pace. There will be a discussion on Litsy at the end of the month.

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IndoorDame

Poetry of Sappho | Sappho

#twig #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Like the imagery. 💜 2y

dabbe 💚🩷💚 2y

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vlwelser

After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz

so-so

I appreciate what the author was trying to do here, but it just wasn't my jam. Also the narrator on the audiobook struggles with pronouncing foreign words (esp French) so that was distracting....

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2y

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rwmg

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Revised) | Anne Carson

so-so

A bilingual edition (Greek on the left-hand page, English on the right) of the complete surviving poetry of Sappho, some from papyri and some from quotations by other authors of a line or even just a word. TBH, I didn't find any of it particularly memorable but it was interesting to see just how fragmentary fragments are.

dabbe I want your drink. 🤩 2y

rwmg @dabbe Terry's Orange milkshake 2y

dabbe @rwmg Yum! 🤩 2y

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TheKidUpstairs

After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz

#12Booksof2023

One the third day of Christmas, my reading gave to me, two books I could never choose between! 🎶

Both of these reads have stuck with me for different reasons.

After Sappho is a Greek chorus of women's voices ringing through the years, lilting and dancing through stories of women trying to live life on their own terms, without the input and incursion of men. It is beautiful and playful, sorrowful and filled with rage.

Cont'd

TheKidUpstairs Trespasses tells the story of a young woman figuring out who she is and her place in the world during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is gripping, and emotional, and I loved every page.

Trespasses

TheKidUpstairs @Andrew65 2y

Andrew65 Always an interesting topic. 2y

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mariaku21

After Sappho: A Novel | Selby Wynn Schwartz

bailed

Stopped at 24%.
I wanted to like this one but the jumping around from person to person across different times was a very confusing and hard to keep all the characters straight.

I ended up flipping back n forth a lot more than I wanted to and that along with the nonlinear pacing threw me off a lot.

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hissingpotatoes

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho | Anne Carson, Sappho

pick

4/5⭐ I love that the book includes the facing Greek. The translations are more on the side of faithfully following the literal Greek; while this makes for more awkward-sounding poetry, I really appreciate the accuracy. I read this alongside Rayor's 2023 translation, & it's very interesting to see how they filled in blanks & translated words differently. The commentary on each fragment is great. The two editions necessarily supplemented each other.

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