Notes from Source: Reading Anne Carson’s new volume of translations, one feels as if destiny has united two utterly original and yet quite similar minds. A sense of the inevitability of this encounter is hard to shake: Carson, perhaps the most admired experimental poet of our time and an erudite classicist, seems to be in her perfect element, coaxing indelible, wholly imagined poems from the merest fragments of ancient Greek text Sappho, for her part, after millennia of revisionist…

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