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thewhimsicalowl 's review for:
After Sappho
by Selby Wynn Schwartz
"It is not true that nothing happened to Sappho except her own life. Have you forgotten that a poet lies down in the shade of the future? She is calling out, she is waiting. Our lives are the lines missing from the fragments. There is the hope of becoming in all our forms and genres. The future of Sappho shall be us" (168).
In so many ways, this felt oriented with endearing and unsettling precision towards my niche interests. Paris in the 1880s-1920s? YES. Lyrical fragments of Sappho throughout? YES. Meditating on the beauty of art created by women in diverse mediums? YES. Experimental stream-of-consciousness writing/unconventional novel? YES. Virginia Woolf and Colette and other faves? YES.
I could not wait to get to the end and peruse the Bibliographic Note to see all of Schwartz's sources!!! You can tell this project has been so thoroughly (and lovingly) researched—what a feat. After Sappho is a book that makes me want to check out a mountain of books from the library and pick up the pen to write, which is some of the highest praise I think I can bestow on a work.
Modernism pals, please read this posthaste! Thanks, Edinburgh Book Festival. :')
In so many ways, this felt oriented with endearing and unsettling precision towards my niche interests. Paris in the 1880s-1920s? YES. Lyrical fragments of Sappho throughout? YES. Meditating on the beauty of art created by women in diverse mediums? YES. Experimental stream-of-consciousness writing/unconventional novel? YES. Virginia Woolf and Colette and other faves? YES.
I could not wait to get to the end and peruse the Bibliographic Note to see all of Schwartz's sources!!! You can tell this project has been so thoroughly (and lovingly) researched—what a feat. After Sappho is a book that makes me want to check out a mountain of books from the library and pick up the pen to write, which is some of the highest praise I think I can bestow on a work.
Modernism pals, please read this posthaste! Thanks, Edinburgh Book Festival. :')