Sappho.
Summary: "A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 489.3 SAPSappho.
Summary: Collects the poems and fragments of the ancient Greek poet's surviving work, displaying the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, and remembrance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SAPSampha
Summary: Lahai is the second studio album by English musician Sampha, released on 20 October 2023 by Young, marking his first release in over six years. The album is named after Sampha's paternal grandfather's name. The album features contributions from Yaeji, Léa Sen, Sheila Maurice Grey, Ibeyi, Morgan Simpson, Yussef Dayes, Laura Groves and Kwake Bass.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC SAMSampha
Contents: Plastic 100°C -- Blood on me -- Kora sings -- (No one knows me) Like the piano -- Take me inside -- Reverse faults -- Under -- Timmy's prayer -- Incomplete kisses -- What shouldn't I be?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016