If Not, Winter Vloekschrift Theophylline is a work of

Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma

political and aesthetic liberty

” his stroll a “walk / to curse the sidewalks

poems culled from years of notebooks that are

and it enacts a powerful homage to the human capacity for creation and metamorphosis

If Not, Winter Vloekschrift Theophylline is a work ofAnne Carson 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