FICTION; SIREN SONGS; In "Sappho's Leap," Erica Jong pens a lusty tale about the legendary Greek poet.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | May 11, 2003| | Copyright

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 ...

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