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1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers
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The Slowdown
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audio
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Poetry
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Publication Date |
Aug 16, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:06:01

Today’s poem is Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “If you listen close enough to a poem, especially to the very best of them, you can hear on their surface, the poet’s breathing and silences shaped by the pace and noise of their age. You can hear a voice fastened to the page, the speech of the era in which the poem was written, along with images that float into our mind’s eye which are also of a period like red wheelbarrows, pool players, frigates, and 8-track cassettes.”

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