Thanks to Jody and Chris for posting the best collection of Sapphics in English I've seen and providing such good commentary and analysis. I may print and keep this great collection for future use.
Clive, glad you're a fan of Jim Powell. Many of the poems in It Was Fever That Made the World go back to when Jim and I were hanging out together almost every day in Berkeley, commenting on each other's poems and editing Occident. One of the poems in that book--can't remember the title-- is an epistle addressed to me about those days. Jim was studying for a Ph. D. in Comparative Lit. I was just hanging out and auditing a Latin class--and secretly gathering impressions for my novel Among the Immortals.
Now that we're back in touch again, I might send him your kind comments about his work--with your permission.
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