{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_sob_sob154_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_sob_sob154_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_sob_sob154_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob154.htm","summary":"Since previous editions of the Songs of Bilitis have been complacently unconcerned with the desirability of sympathetic treatment, accurate translation or rhythmic presentation, I offer this version of an extremely lovely book, in all humility, as leaven to their dough, although acutely conscious that the whole is bread, where cake is (this time) sadly in demand. A. C.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Songs of Bilitis: Translator's Notes","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":1920}