Carson attempts to follow the word order of the Greek text as closely as possible, and not to add any words which cannot be found in the surviving Greek texts of Sappho, such as personal pronouns and definite articles. Along with Carson's translations, with Greek text on facing pages, the book has a short introduction, notes on the translation, a "who's who" of names in Sappho's poetry, and translations of selected ancient writings about Sappho.
If Not, Winter uses the Greek text of Eva-Maria Voigt's Sappho and Alcaeus with a few variations. The title comes from Carson's translation of Sappho's fragment 22. In 2019, the Folio Society produced an edition of If Not, Winter illustrated by Jenny Holzer. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho is a book of translations of the poetry of Sappho by the Canadian classicist and poet Anne Carson, first published in 2002.
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