Hearing Sappho in New Orleans : The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Salvaggio, Ruth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Poesie americaine > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire et critique.
American poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry > Louisiana > New Orleans > History and criticism.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Poetry.
Poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780807144428

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