Yesterday I discussed the question of ‘Who Speaks for Sappho?’ and Louise Lawler’s work that extends the ‘mansplaining’ ‘of Sappho’s poetry into a general critique of patriarchy. Today let’s take one example of the very literal ‘mansplaining’ of ancient Roman poets – Catullus 51 as a remake of Sappho 31 (here are the translations of […]
A few Sundays back (04/22/12), I visited the exhibition of Columbus-based artist, Tom Kelly called the greatest thing on the black earth – comprising of the artist’s most recent work to engage with the poetry of the Archaic Greek poet, Sappho. (Previous exhibitions on this theme include his museum debut at the Southern Ohio Museum […]