Desire is not simple. —⁠Anne Carson, “Eros, the Bittersweet”   1   For more than a thousand years, every important writer in the West was familiar with Sappho’s poems. She was a celebrity, a model, a source of inspiration, admiration, parody, imitation, and theatrical fun. Her work was quarried by other poets and quoted by […]

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