While sifting through trash in her flooded New Orleans home, Ruth Salvaggio discovered an old volume of Sappho's poetry stained with muck and mold. In her efforts to restore the book, Salvaggio realized that the process reflected how Sappho's own words were unearthed from the refuse of the ancient world. Undertaking such a task in New Orleans, she sets out to recover the city's rich poetic heritage while searching through its flooded debris.
Hearing Sappho in New Orleans is at once a meditation on this poetic city, its many languages and cultures, and a history of its forgotten poetry....
While sifting through trash in her flooded New Orleans home, Ruth Salvaggio discovered an old volume of Sappho's poetry stained with muck and mold....
This study of Dryden's dualities suggests that the double structures we find in his work go deeper than the superficial dialectic of his language. The liveliest parts of Dryden's works are those where divisions become most extreme, where he can exploit their poetic possibilities.
This study of Dryden's dualities suggests that the double structures we find in his work go deeper than the superficial dialectic of his language. The...
