Only fragments remain of the work of Sappho ... It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Most of Sappho's work has been lost, and only one of her poems has survived in its entirety ... because I fucked up most of my life, and didn't publish a book until I was forty — so I always ...

So I had this idea that I could kind of set the poem against the backdrop of medieval life and sort of chock ... it's a pretty short poem, and we have 32 pages. Do we have to initially jump ...