Aaron Poochigian's lyrical translations preserve the musical style of Sappho's songs. In his introduction he discusses the theories surrounding Sappho's life and love affairs, and the enduring influence of her works.
Sappho was born sometime between 630 and 617 BCE and died around
570. Little of certainty is known about her life. A native of the
island of Lesbos, she resided in its largest city, Mytilene. She
composed songs for choral and solo performance on a wide range of
themes but is best known for amatory songs focusing on adolescent
females. She is renowned as the first woman poet in literary
history, and her songs have been universally admired throughout
antiquity and modernity.
Aaron Poochigian was born in 1973. He earned his Phd in Classics in
2006. He was a visiting professor of Classics at the University of
Utah in 2007-8 and is currently D.L. Jordon Fellow at Roanoke
College in Salem, Virginia. His poems and translations have
appeared in a number of journals, including Chimaera, Classical
Journal and Unsplendid.
Carol Ann Duffy's poetry has received every major award in Britain,
including the Whitbread and the Forward prized for Mean Time and
the T.S. Eliot Award for Rapture. In the USA she has received the
E.M. Forster and Lannan Awards. Carol Ann has also written
extensively for children and has editied many anthologies.
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