Devastating power

„Do I still yearn for my virginity?“ Sappho asks in another fragment. What is the meaning here? Who is talking? Is it Sappho, an old woman tormented by sex? Or the voice of Sappho’s creation? It is the need to decide that draws us in.

In the fragments of just a single line, the words assume a particular, devastating power. „You burn me,“ she says in one piece of verse. / NYT 26.8.02 *)

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