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Hearing Sappho in New Orleans : the call of poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward / Ruth Salvaggio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salvaggio, Ruth.
- Series:
- Southern Literary Studies
- Southern literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- New Orleans (La.)--Poetry.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While sifting through trash in her flooded New Orleans home, Ruth Salvaggio discovered an old volume of Sappho's poetry stained with muck and mold. In her efforts to restore the book, Salvaggio realized that the process reflected how Sappho's own poems were unearthed from the refuse of the ancient world. Undertaking such a task in New Orleans, she sets out to recover the city's rich poetic heritage while sifting through its flooded debris. Hearing Sappho in New Orleans is at once a meditation on this poetic city, its many languages and cultures, and a history of its forgotten poetry. Using Sap
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Early callings
- pt. 2. Calling up poems and places.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8071-4442-8
- OCLC:
- 804853596
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