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PRESERVATION Raymond CarverTWO POEMS Amy ClampittCLAIRE'S LOVER'S CHURCH Teri RuchINSTITUTE OF THE IMPOSSIBLE(poem) Robert Penn WarrenLE BYRON DE Nos Jouis(Robert Lowell) Anthony HechtCARRION (CONTD) (poem) Richard HowardJOURNALS (192834) Cyril ConnollyWith notes by David Pryce-JonesELLMANN RE-JOYCES Christopher RicksIN BROAD DAYLIGHT C. P. CavafyTranslated by James MerrillWHAT WAS MOST PRECIOUSHis FORM (C. P. Cavafy) I. A. SareyannisTranslated by Diana HaasPHOTOGRAPHS OF C. P. CAVAFY, His FAMILYAND HOME George P. SavidisCAVAFYS TECHNIQUE OF INSPIRATION C. Th. DimarasTranslated by Diana HaasCAVAFYS VOICE AND CONTEXT Edmund KeeleyJACOB (poem) Takis Sinopoulos (Translated by James Stone)CAVAFY AND APOLLONIOS G.W. Bowersock ... Read more

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Since his death almost seventy years ago, C. P. Cavafy has come to be recognized as one of the greatest poets of modern times. Elegiac, deeply sensual, and able to plumb the heart with language of immense richness, Cavafy evokes the great lost classical world of the Mediterranean with unparalleled beauty. Much of his poetry deals with love, specifically homosexual love. It speaks of human passions, the experience common to all mankind of love offered, sought, and lost. His verse is beautiful and embracing, and remains as alive and sensuous as it was when he wrote it.

Theoharis Constantine Theoharis offers a new translation, one that presents Cavafy's work in the thematic order Cavafy wanted it published and emphasizes the tenderness and intensity of the love poems. Gore Vidal's foreword offers an explication of Cavafy's world, a valuable map for readers of what will be embraced as a signal volume of world poetry.

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Expatriot longings in Alexandria, the poetry of love
Constantine P. Cavafy is one of the most intelligent and elloquent poets of this century, but remains barely known in American.Why is this?Probably because Cavafy is a man and his poems of lust and longing are addressed at other young men.I would never have discovered this amazing man if it were not for an essay about him published in Gore Vidal's "The Last Empire."Cavafy spent his life as a Greek citizen living in Alexandria egypt, and writing about the young men he found there.But beautiful males are far from his only subject.Some of his best poems are written with a technique where he becomes someone else, often a someone historical that has been dead hundreds of years.He writes as if he really were that person, describing what they are feeling, as well as what they see and hear.He can summon with words all the glory and magic of empires long extict, often to a degree of erie detail.These poems made me yearn to experience what he was describing, to be able to see what he can see in his mind.He wrote in Greek, and this book has been translated by Theoharis C. Theoharis.As I don't read Greek, I have no way of knowing how close he came to the original, but I know that what he did translate blew me away.I was transported from my life to the baths and cafes of Alexandria, the palaces of the Ceasars, from Greece in 1900 to the Greece of legend.Cavafy was able to take me places I'd never knew existed.Maybe the best compliment I can give this work is that it didn't just make me think, it made me imagine and dream.Anyone who loves the Greek world should own this book.Five stars just aren't enough. ... Read more

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John Anton presents a new perspective on the work of Constantine P. Cavafy. He traces the influential poet's development during the early phase of his creativity, the discovery of his poetic self, and the creation of his own authentic voice. Autobiographical elements in Cavafy's poems are introduced as guides to explore on aspect of the poet's world: how he gradually learned to control the transformation of experience into "work in progress" .
This book clearly portrays Cavafy's quality of thought, his originality, the freshness of his imagery and his penetrating commentary on the human condition. It also provides detailed historical background of ancient Alexandria, the city which Cavafy recreated to develop his unique poetic vision. ... Read more