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Sappho's Gymnasium
Olga Broumas | T. Begley

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Sappho's Gymnasium

Copper Canyon Press (Nov 01, 2000)
9781556590719
| Paperback
200 pages | 5.5 x 8.9 inch | English
$ 12.00
Dewey 811.54
LC Classification PS3552.R6819 .S26 1994
LC Control No. 94031304

Genre

  • Poetry

Subject

  • American Poetry
  • American Poetry/ 20th Century
  • American Poetry/ Women Authors
  • Lesbians' Writings, American

Plot

collaborative poems in Sapphic idiom

"In these hypnotically incantatory poems, grief and ecstasy, paradise and hell cohabit, each located within the other. Just as a brilliant jazz duo might break down the structure of a tune, Broumas and Begley breakdown the conventions of traditional syntax, leaving out punctuation other than line and stanza breaks, sounding out and recombining phrases, introducing neologisms and etymological sources."--on lower cover