Vincent and Stephen: Dreams Among Sappho’s Verses

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BlazeVOX, paperback

Publication Date: January 5, 2024

Publisher Marketing: “Stephen Vincent’s SLEEPING WITH SAPPHO is a fascinating investigation of how a writer envisions a way back into history and simultaneously contemporizes it. In this take on Sappho, Vincent invites his children, friends, and anonymous others to enter as characters enacting a current scene both in SF and simultaneously ancient Lesbos. He makes it unitary by spinning variations which reiterate the fragmentary Sappho that remains to give us a far/ranging and delightful take on how ancient voices speak to us and make our writing whole. If we trust our best instincts as readers to synthesize and appreciate the new territory, we are richly rewarded in this new version of Sappho through the lens of our moment. Read this book for pleasure in its invention of satisfyingly new conjunctions.” — Maxine Chernoff

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