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Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson 9781628973860
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $18.72Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both... -
John Lyly's Sappho and Phao: A Retelling by David Bruce 9798215890981
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215890981Author David BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint David BrucePublisher David... -
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Diane J. Rayor
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $25.12Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all... -
Sapphopunk: How Sappho Almost Became a Stone Femme, a Fiction in Honor of Otherness, an Experiment in Dignity or Sappho's Queer Biography by Jj Hastain 9781941550397
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $31.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941550397Author Jj HastainFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten... -
Sappho Does Hay(na)Ku by Scott Keeney 9781948728027
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948728027Author Scott KeeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Sephyrus PressPublisher Sephyrus... -
The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats by B. Bennett 9781137381873
Booksplease Price: $90.25Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hoelderlin, Verlaine, George, Moerike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an... -
Seasons with Sappho: Accompanied by Haley Howard by Haley Howard 9798885279192
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $25.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885279192Author Haley HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Rosedog BooksPublisher Rosedog... -
The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats by B. Bennett 9781349479764
Booksplease Price: $90.25Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hoelderlin, Verlaine, George, Moerike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an... -
The Circle of Sappho: A Regency Detective Mystery 2 by David Lassman 9780750962964
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10When a teacher and pupil are found dead at an exclusive girls' school in Bath, Jack Swann, the Regency Detective, becomes involved in one of the most intriguing cases of his career. Is it a tragic... -
A Study Guide for Sappho's Fragment 34 by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375376723
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375376723Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Gale, Study... -
A Study Guide for Sappho's Fragment 2 by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375380300
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375380300Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Gale, Study... -
The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition by Judy Grahn 9781944981655
RRP: $36.95Booksplease Price: $26.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood by Margaret Reynolds
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449907528Author Margaret ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint FawcettPublisher Random... -
The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos by Peter Green 9780520203402
RRP: $56.55Booksplease Price: $52.61Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the... -
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Diane J. Rayor 9781108831680
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $96.27Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all... -
Sappho's Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle by Marina Karides 9781438483054
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $116.18Examines women's food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.Winner of the 2023... -
Wind–Mountain–Oak: The Poems of Sappho by Dan Beachy-Quick 9781946482815
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $29.68Dan Beachy-Quick writes, “There are depths within the denotative life of Greek words that English seldom allows readers in translation to access. At some basic level, I wanted to offer a translation... -
The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues by Ellen Greene 9780674032958
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $29.17The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have... -
A Study Guide for Sappho's to an Army Wife in Sardis by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375394956
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375394956Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Gale, Study... -
Reclaiming the L word: Sappho's daughters out in Africa by Alleyn Diesel 9781920397289
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $45.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920397289Author Alleyn DieselFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Modjaji BooksPublisher Modjaji... -
Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" by Simona Martorana 9781501777066
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $76.85Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the stereotypical roles of Roman women, motherhood... -
Singing Sappho: Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera by Melina Esse
Booksplease Price: $86.44From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho--the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity--played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation,... -
Gay and Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology from Sappho to Michelangelo by James J. Willhelm
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $98.22First published in 1995. This anthology focuses on European languages, but also includes Arabic and Hebrew poetry of medieval Spain, arranged chronologically and accompanied by commentary about the... -
The Lesbian Lyre: Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st Century Jeffrey M. Duban 9781905570799
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $39.06Hailed by Plato as the "Tenth Muse" of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity's greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of... -
Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho by Diana L. Burgin 9780814712214
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow... -
To Sappho My Sister: Lesbian Sisters Write About Their Lives by Lee Fleming
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $19.58In this one-of-a-kind anthology, lesbian sisters from several countries explore their relationships with one another. Through their words and photographs, both well-known and less-famous siblings... -
Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho by Diana L. Burgin 9780814711903
Booksplease Price: $176.61The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow... -
Khmer Costumes and Ornaments: After the Devata of Angkor Wat by Sappho Marchal 9789745242340
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $28.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789745242340Author Sappho MarchalFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Orchid PressPublisher Orchid... -
Three Archaic Poets: Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho by Anne Pippin Burnett 9781853995781
Booksplease Price: $52.46This study of early Greek lyric provides portraits of Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho and their poetry. It looks at their social setting, and their purposes within it.This study of early Greek lyric... -
The Poetry of Sex: From Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy by Brian Arkins 9781803741086
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $62.69Deals in a comprehensive, but succinct way with poets who wrote of sex and love. It covers Greek and Roman poets, the Troubadours of Provence and also Chaucer and Shakespeare, who wrote briefly about... -
Sappho; A Poem. (Reprinted from the Intellectual Repository.). by Mary Catherine Rothery 9781241022518
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241022518Author Mary Catherine RotheryFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint British Library,... -
Aglaia: The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna by Charles Segal 9780847686179
Booksplease Price: $138.22In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman,... -
Bird: And Other Writings on Epilepsy by Susan Hawthorne 9781875559886
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $19.58Thirteen-year-old Avis confronts the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she loves most. Susan Hawthorne... -
Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho's Fragments to Viral Hashtags by Leila Easa
Booksplease Price: $186.21Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media. Rooted in a moment of acute crisis (the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic), Leila Easa and... -
A Sappho Of Green Springs: The Four Guardians Of Lagrange And Peter Schroeder by Bret Harte 9781498050333
RRP: $72.05Booksplease Price: $63.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498050333Author Bret HarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher... -
The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon by Nick Laird
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it... -
Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece by Diane J. Rayor
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in... -
Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry by Cecilia Piantanida 9781350191686
Booksplease Price: $65.31Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic... -
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman 9780393242232
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $39.16The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the... -
Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture by Barbara Jane Brickman 9781978828261
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $187.49An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave...