{"product_id":"you-burn-me-sappho-9781861719058","title":"You Burn Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYOU BURN ME: POEMS \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBY SAPPHO \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by J.M. Edmonds \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by Louise Cooper \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book of poems by the ancient Greek poet Sappho, including a new gallery of images of Sappho's art (featuring Greek art and paintings).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSappho has become one of the touchstones of Western poetry, an icon and heroine for poets of any gender. For the simple reason that her poetry is very, very good. Well, not just good, it's genius, the real thing. Sappho has been cited by many many poets, including Lord Byron, Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Alexander Pope, John Addison, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, Lawrence Durrell, Robert Graves, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Edna St Vincent Millay, and many contemporary poets. Sappho has become an icon for lesbian, gay and queer poets and writers. She has been the subject of much critical debate; in the 19th and early 20th centuries, questions of authorship were prominent; in the Eighties and Nineties, Sappho's poetry was absorbed into lesbian and queer theory and poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAside from the poem to Aphrodite, the rest of Sappho's work is in fragments, sometimes nothing more than a word or a phrase. Sometimes not even the words are complete. Yet her poetic voice shines through the fragments: very sensuous, ironic, self-deprecating, passionate, very lyrical. Her vocabulary is direct and simple, and sometimes colloquial. Edgar Lobel, one of Sappho's celebrated translators, said that her language was 'non-literary'. Her metaphors are powerful, sometimes lush - such as the ecstasy of love being compared to the wind in the oak trees on a mountainside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe imagery in her poetry is of the natural world, in all its beauty and simplicity, its violence and cruelty. There are images of trees, mountains, streams, the sun and moon, stars, orchards, flowers, breezes, grass, nights, dawns, and the Pleiades. In her poetry one finds evocations of paradisal worlds, with streams, springs, apple trees, sunshine, roses, incense and gardens. Sappho's is a synaesthetic poetry, one which sets alive all the senses, as most of the best poetry does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes a new, revised gallery of art featuring Sappho and art based on her works, an introduction and a bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardcover edition with a full colour laminate cover. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvailable as an E-book and Paperback. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewww.crmoon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sappho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1861719051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781861719058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crescent Moon Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.25d","brand":"Sappho","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48440616190207,"sku":"9781861719058","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd004ddb-7ec1-4c34-b672-9bd86d387c15.jpg?v=1777183640","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/you-burn-me-sappho-9781861719058","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}