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Imprint: Arcadia
Format: B Format
ISBN: 978-1-900850-91-9
Price: £ 11.95
Pages: 336 pp
Date: 4-Jul
"A wild adventure with a heroine like no other. Searing and startling." - Naomi Wolf
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Sappho's Leap
Erica Jong (About this author)
Complemented by Erica Jong's new translations of Sappho's fragments, as well as nine of the author's own poems about the epic poet who shaped all our understandings of poetic verse, Sapphos's leap is not to be missed. Jong's Sappho is one of her most unforgettable and exuberant heroines.
'Sappho's Leap' is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcaeus an plots with him to overthrow the dictator of their island. When they are caught, she is married off to a repellent older man in hopes that matrimony will keep her out of trouble. Instead, it starts her off on a series of amorous adventures with both men and women, taking her from Delphi to Egypt, and even to the Land of the Amazons and the shadowy realm of Hades.
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