Islands Project, The

The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho is a book-length collection of poems intended as a conversation with and investigation of the life of Sappho as can be imagined from her work and historical circumstances. The poems attempt a meeting between a contemporary woman poet and one from antiquity, both of them adrift in time. What can a lesbian poet know of her supposed progenitor? If Sappho is only fragments, is not a lesbian tradition in poetry the same, or does it only feel that way? The Islands Project investigates these questions and deals, at the same time, with the death of the poet’s mother.

White and blue text stating The Islands Project Poems for Sappho by Eloise Klein Healy over a black background with the black and white image of a human body halfway submerged in water underneath.

Eloise Klein Healy ( Author Website )

Publication Date: March 1, 2007

Genre/Imprint: Poetry, Red Hen Press

$17.95 Tradepaper

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ISBN: 978-1-59709-085-8

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