A review by sookieskipper
The Complete Poems of Sappho by Sappho

5.0

5 stars.

Its a big "fuck you" to all those who tried to erase Sappho's literary merits as an exposure to her sexuality only to have it survive, though partially, in twenty first century; to have her works reach every part of the world and not just the geography she was tied to. It only goes to show how even amidst sexism and bigotry, her works were admired and artists, poets and literary agents have taken it upon themselves to preserve and treasure what remained and what they could collect at that time.

Aristophane portrayed her as a clown on stage, Horace and Ovid though admired her works didn't attribute much to the passion she showed other women in her works, apologists called the homoerotic text as "oh, its just metaphor", and twentieth century poets like Auden publicly dismissed homo-eroticism in her poetry while in private admitted to it.

My favorite:
Anger

When anger is flooding
through your chest
best to quiet your reckless
barking tongue

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Famous critique:
Some say there are nine Muses.
Count again.
Behold the tenth:
Sappho of Lesbos.

Plato, in The Greek Anthology 9.506


Yeah.