I wanted a complete work to peruse at leisure with annotations and explanations throughout . Even the fragments we have of sapphos poetry are incredibly beautiful she was considered the 10th muse in the ancient world and even studied and learned for hundreds of years after her death this book offers the complete poems as far as evidence at the time is available. Barnstone lover poet and scholar cannot make sapphos fragments whole but he makes us more aware of our loss than any other translation he gives us the abyss and fragments of sappho in startling english a few words that in ancient greek changed its music and made the walls of the city tremble. About the complete poems of sappho sapphos thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2600 years certainly a record for poetry of any kind and love for her art only increases as time goes on though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems her mystique endures . Sapphos thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2600 years certainly a record for poetry of any kind and love for her art only increases as time goes on though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation and to inspire new efforts at bringing the