(which did not happen despite pressure from Pound), and generally witness the continental European scene. In 1958, inspired by Salvatore Quasimodo's anthology Greci Lirici, Barnard published Sappho: A New Translation, with the encouragement of Pound, whom she sent the first drafts of the work. She returned to Vancouver after fifteen years on the East Coast and continued to write, mostly original poetry and prose, until her death. Works A Few Poems (1952) Sappho: A New Translation (University of California Press' 1958) Mythmakers (Ohio University Press, 1966) Collected Poems (Breitenbush Books, 1979, introduction by William Stafford) Three Fables (Breitenbush Books, 1983) Assault on Mt. Helicon: A Literary Memoir (University of California Press, 1984) Time and the White Tigress (Breitenbush Books, 1986, linocuts by Anita Bigelow) Nantucket Genesis: The Tale of My Tribe (1988, memoir in verse) See also 'Mary Barnard' is a cultivar of Iris unguicularis Works cited References External links Mary Barnard page Photo of bespectacled Barnard Paideuma Brief biography by Elizabeth Bell Mary Barnard Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 1909 births 2001 deaths American women poets Greek–English translators Reed College alumni Poets from Oregon Writers from Vancouver, Washington 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American biographers American women biographers 20th-century American translators