The violet is a recurring motif. Sappho used the flower in her romantic poetry, writing of“crowns of violets”. But Medhurst is also interested in Sappho's“afterlives”, as the poet's image was ...
They both ended up in Evin, which has separate sections for men and women. Her interrogators said they would kill her husband and "hit him so much that he would turn black like coal, and purple ...