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Sappho's raft: (le rideau de la Mytilenienne) (Jargon)
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Sappho's raft: (le rideau de la Mytilenienne) (Jargon) Paperback - 1982

by Thomas Meyer


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  • Title Sappho's raft: (le rideau de la Mytilenienne) (Jargon)
  • Author Thomas Meyer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 105
  • Publisher Jargon Society, [Highlands, NC]
  • Date 1982
  • ISBN 9780912330501
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Sappho's Raft

Sappho's Raft: Le rideau de la Mytilenienne

by Thomas Meyer

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Jargon 99. Thomas Meyer's third book of poetry for the Jargon Society. One of 1000 copies bound in plum-colored paper covers with cream wrappers. Frontispiece by David Hockney ("Tom listening to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges"). Bright, clean text within, set in Garamond printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in black and purple ink. Five abstract illustrated pages. 105 + [3] pages. Minimal shelf wear to wrappers due to storage, but NEW, from publisher's stock."What I had in mind was Le Radeau de la Meduse ("The Raft of the Medusa") and what that painting by Gericault encodes for Art History--a passionate yet scientific obsession with the human body focused against pathetic, modern circumstances in total belief the heroic were still possible.
Sappho has always felt to me like such an upheaval, the ache of indifference, the ecstasy of embroilment. While she provides a raft upon these boiling waves her raft is but a rideau, a curtain, which when raised to the rafters lets in the vision of shipwreck,
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Sappho's Raft (Le rideau de la Mytilenienne)
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Sappho's Raft (Le rideau de la Mytilenienne)

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Jargon, 1982. First edition. Wrappers in Dustjacket. Fine / Very Good. Oblong 8vo, 105 pp. Some dustsoiling to jacket. DH.
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by Meyer, Thomas

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