A review by ohclaire
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho

4.0

There is something so beautiful in this decay. Now, I don't think that Sappho's artistry was amplified by the very medium her writing was on being destroyed, but I do think that she would have found it interesting. So many of her verses feel like toasts, like oaths (my favorite being "Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time"), and there's a certain poetic asymmetry in the fact that these words of creation have been destroyed. Still, I wish the full version was out there; it's not as fitting to read blackout poetry when you're looking for a classic.