<![CDATA[C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems]]>

false <![CDATA[C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems]]> 5442720 1 An extraordinary literary event. The collected works—including the previously unpublished final poems—of the greatest modern Greek poet, translated by the renowned critic, classicist, and award-winning author of The Lost, and published simultaneously in two handsome volumes. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break with such exquisite lyricism the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933). Now, after more than a decade of work and study, and with the exclusive cooperation of the Cavafy Archive in Athens, Daniel Mendelsohn is uniquely positioned to reveal the full extent of Cavafy’s genius. Here at last is the remarkable music of his poetry, and the rhymes, assonances, and rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators. The more than 250 works in Collected Poems cover the vast sweep of Hellenic civilization from the Trojan War through Cavafy’s own lifetime. Powerfully moving, searching, and wise, Cavafy’s poetry and the stories he tells—whether advising Odysseus as he sets out for Ithaca, or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the night of his death—brilliantly make the historical personal. He also explores, with striking universality, longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, all with a profound, humane sympathy. Including an in-depth introduction by Mendelsohn and extensive commentary that situates the work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context, the Collected Poems is also a revelatory window into classics and classical history. Equally exciting is the publication of The Unfinished Poems—thirty nearly complete drafts that Cavafy left behind at the time of his death, which languished in the Cavafy Archive for six decades and have never before been translated into English. These astonishing texts—as evocative and lyrical as Cavafy’s finished work—and the introduction and commentary that augment them, provide a fascinating glimpse into the poet’s creative process and allow the reader to take part in a major literary discovery. These splendid translations will stand as definitive, firmly establishing Cavafy’s place in the pantheon of the finest artists of the modern era. 5510306 24 3 2009 C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems total:5|5:3|4:1|3:1| 5 22 19 2 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 21:06:29 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 21:11:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 01 19:20:21 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 19:21:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 22:14:50 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 22:14:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 08:43:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 08:43:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 15:03:39 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 15:03:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 12:36:54 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 12:36:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 04 11:40:08 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 27 19:42:08 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 20 06:51:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 06:51:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 18:35:47 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 18:35:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jun 09 11:00:26 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 11:43:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 22 03:57:33 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 03:57:33 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon May 11 10:46:24 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 10:46:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 06 06:37:50 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 06:37:50 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 05 22:27:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 22:27:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 05 18:21:50 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 18:21:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 16 08:11:30 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 08:39:05 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 08:11:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 25 12:26:01 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 12:26:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 21 15:55:47 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 15:55:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 24 09:45:28 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 09:45:46 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5442720