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Article: FICTION; SIREN SONGS; In "Sappho's Leap," Erica Jong pens a lusty tale about the legendary Greek poet.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 11, 2003
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Byline: Karin Winegar
Special to the Star Tribune
Erica Jong has chronicled the landscape of erotic desire for three decades since her then-scandalously frank novel "Fear of Flying" soared into bestsellerdom in 1973. Several works of poetry, historical fiction and a handful of rambunctious heroines later, she turns to the oldest known writing by a woman, the poet Sappho, who lived on the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos 2,600 years ago.
Plato called Sappho the Tenth Muse, and Jong (in her epilogue) refers to her as a combination of Madonna and Sylvia Plath.
"Sappho's Leap" looks at the power of music and a hunger for love complicated by ...
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