kajaglede 's review for:

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

4.5

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Only complaint is that it introduced soooo many historical characters that is hard to keep track of them. anyway go lesbians and women

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A poet is someone who swims inexplicably away from the shore, only to arrive at an island of her own invention.

When will you arrive? Why is your radiance distant from my eyes? You drop through the branches when I sleep at the roots. You pour yourself out like the light of an afternoon and yet somewhere you linger, outside the day.

Her dreams were otherworldly birds. They flew out of a stunted yew tree in the garden of her childhood and circled the roof of her house, cawing, years of their hoarse cries and black wings.

We remembered Cassandra telling us that we would invert the order of things: time would turn inside out around us like a portrait swallowing its own frame.

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