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  • Things We Leave Behind
    Josephine Balmer
    The Things We Leave Behind gathers poems from all five of Josephine Balmer’s acclaimed volumes, excavating a common ground between the distant past and our contemporary world. From the universal grief that echoes down through the centuries in both her ground-breaking first collection, Chasing Catullus (2004), and later Letting Go (2017), to the mirroring of ancient exile and mo...
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    20,62 €

  • Poems & Fragments
    Sappho / Josephine Balmer
    This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer’s classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne Fragment. In a new essay on these additions she discusses the issues raised in the translating - and in some cases retranslating - of these fragmentary and ever-shifting texts. Poems...
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    16,94 €

  • The Paths of Survival
    Josephine Balmer
    The Paths of Survival explores the fragility of the written word; the ways in which it is destroyed and the ways in which, by each fresh miracle, it endures against all the odds. Tracing the few surviving fragments of Aeschylus’s lost tragedy, Myrmidons, which notoriously depicted the doomed love of the Greek hero Achilles for his fellow warrior Patroclus, the volume moves back...
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    16,00 €

  • The Word for Sorrow
    Josephine Balmer
    From Ovid’s Rome to the blood-soaked trenches of Gallipoli, 'The Word for Sorrow', brings new resonance to ancient grief. Its powerful and spellbinding poems give voice to the universal suffering of exile, war or grief, celebrating the enduring common humanity that binds us across countries and over all the centuries. ...
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    13,89 €

  • Classical Women Poets
    Josephine Balmer
    ’Their songs delight the gods... and mortals too for all time’Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these were the ’earthly Muses’ whose poetic skills rivalled those of their heavenly namesakes.Today only a fraction of their wo...
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    17,85 €