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The horror of the male experience during World War One was well documented in poetry, memoir, and fiction throughout the 20th century. Women's voices of despair, endurance and anger, however, have often been forgotten. These poems of political fury, widowed brides, industry undertaken, and sons and friends loved and lost, give a heartbreaking insight into the experience of women throughout World War One.

Sappho was a female poet who was well known in ancient Greece and Rome for her lyrical poetry. She was most famous for her poems involving women who loved women, and it is from her name that sapphic, a term referring to sexual relations between women, originated. This is a compendium of her surviving work, a collection of 54 fragments translated by Henry de Vere Stacpoole.

Fumar en una bañera no tendría nada particularmente interesante salvo si lo hacemos con alguien más, y justo eso es lo que ocurre en este libro: dos amigas se dan un baño juntas, se relajan y se fuman un cigarro mientras se expresan sus confidencias ante la perplejidad y la reconstrucción emocional a las que se ven abocadas tras salir ambas de una larga relación.

“No es ningún secreto que una conciencia puede a veces ser una plaga...” canta Bono en “The fly”, tema estrella del álbum Achtung Baby (1991) con el que U2 reinventó su sonido para la década del final de siglo, sumergiéndose en registros más electrónicos y psicoactivos. Con esos versos podemos resumir parte del ambiente de este poemario con estructura narrativa que describe los efectos de una plaga de tábanos asesinos que asolan el mundo.