Review of If Not, Winter:
Fragments of Sappho.

Sappho’s Gaps: a review of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson. 2004

“In this process of reading, the reader becomes self consciously bandied in and out of a world of lyric language that does begin take marvelous weight and shape as Sappho’s disintegrated lines project the riven voice of unrequited love and desire. Her fragments, silences, and unexpected clarities (while form & content fall apart) enter poetry’s timeless arc so its music be made new again.”

- Barry McKinnon