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by: C. P. Cavafy
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 889.132
EAN: 9780393328998
ISBN: 0393328996
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: March 12, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 258633
Studio: W. W. Norton
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A new translation of a poet widely considered one of the most important of the twentieth century.
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) wrote some of the most powerful poems in world literature. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document. He draws on the spectrum of Greek poetic tradition to write wickedly satirical yet internal poetry, whether his speaker is a spoiled rich boy planning to enter politics or a poor, ostracized, pure young man destroyed by poverty and priggish social mores.
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Rating: - "wish that the way be long"
The second line from Constantine Cavafy's "Ithaka," as translated by Aliki Barnstone, perfectly expresses the feeling one has when reading her fine new translation of Cavafy's collected poems; one wants the journey to last, to be slow, thoughtful, recursive, if possible, neverending. In Cavafy's poetic imagination, the history of thousands of years emerges in perfectly realized vignettes, with ironies teased out of time into timeless applicability. Reading Cavafy is the pleasure of a lifetime.
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