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Cavafy Poems

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In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy’s Complete Poems by the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet’s best-loved works for a Pocket Poets edition, including such favorites as “Waiting for the Barbarians,” “Ithaca,” and “The God Abandons Antony.” Whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death, Cavafy’s poems make thehistoric profoundly and movingly personal. A towering figure of twentieth-century poetry, Cavafy is a stellar addition to the Everyman Pocket Poets series.

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Weight 0.222 kg
Dimensions 1.8 × 11.3 × 16.5 cm
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Format

Hardback

Language

Pages

256

Publisher

Year Published

2014-2-28

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1841597961

About The Author

C. P. CAVAFY (1863-1933) was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria,Egypt, and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He published 154 poems; dozensmore remained incomplete. His fame grew substantially after his death. ABOUT THETRANSLATOR/EDITOR: Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews and essays appear regularlyin The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. Hisaward-winning books include The Elusive Embrace and The Lost: A Search for Six ofSix Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis. Heteaches at Bard College.

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