Someone Else’s Earth

This chapbook contains poems inspired by the extant fragments of the lyric poet Sappho (c. 630 – c. 570 BCE), an ancient voice who sang a woman’s songs from an island and endured. Sappho’s whispers tantalize. Her songs, incomplete, entreat the missing verses and refrains. My poems do not and cannot restore Sappho’s words or intentions but I fill the gaps with shards of my own experience.

 

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“Supremely inventive, exact, and shivery in its timely connection to the language of an ancient civilization, Margaret Lee’s Someone Else’s Earth takes us to a place and time we have never belonged yet have always belonged.”

-Susan Kay Anderson, author of Mezzanine and Please Plant This Book Coast To Coast

 

“Savor these poems and get a sense of an emerging poet whose life-long studies of ancient Greek language and literature inform a book displaying a love of language and deep thirst for purpose at a time we need it most.”

-Paul E Nelson, Founder of SPLAB, author of A Time Before Slaughter/ Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia

 

“Sappho’s fragments become Lee’s starting blocks. Lee runs with what is left as her words gather their own momentum and reach triumphantly what the Greeks would recognize as word-weaving par excellence.”

-Arthur J. Dewey, Professor Theology at Xavier University, author of Wisdom Notes: Theological Riffs on Life and Living

 

“Margaret Lee’s debut collection does not attempt a rerun of the past, but instead riffs freely on Sapphic fragments in 21st century poems that are a delight to read. You will savor this delicious book.”

-Sandra Soli, poet and author

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