If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Style:Paperback is their love worth risking

is their love worth risking the end of the world

he learns the boy he loves will die

they aren’t even speaking to each other

Moving back and forth between past and present

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Style:Paperback is their love worth riskingBy: Sappho Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sapphos fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electricor, to use Sapphos