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Winner of the 1993 Outstanding Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association
The collected and translated verse of the modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy, whose remarkable treatment of ancient myths, dramatic forms and erotic experience influenced the likes of W.H. Auden and E.M. Forster.
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Seller: Pomfret Street Books, Carlisle, PA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Binding Tight Pages Clean Wraps Worn Pages Crinkled. Book. Seller Inventory # 138985
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Good. Book shows shelf & handling wear, including some light corner wear and cover creasing. Pages are slightly worn on their edges, text intact and unmarked. Good reading copy. Seller Inventory # mon0003878839
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Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Clean unmarked exterior, front cover curling, faint dirt marks front flyleaf, o/w clean unmarked interior. BP/Poetry. Seller Inventory # ABE-1652815837464
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge wear & creasing to corner. Anthology of poems, published and unpublished from Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933), translated w/biographical notes. A voice of culture iin dedcline --- hence ours as well. Posthumous publication 2 years after poet's 40th birthday; this is the English rendition published w/o ISBN. 262 pgs w/poems in chronological order. Poems include "An Old Man", 1894: "At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent/ Over the table, an old man sits alone/ A newspaper in front of him/./ But so much thinking, so much remembering./ Makes the old man dizzy. He falls asleep/ His head resting on the cafe table"; "As Much As You Can", "Even if you can't shape your life the way you want/ . Do not degrade it by draggin it along/ To the daily silliness/ of social relations & parties/ Until it comes to seem a boring hang-over"; and, but not least, "Waiting of the Barbarians" (1898): "--- The barbarians are due here today/ ---". Fine copy with tired softcover. Seller Inventory # 018015
Seller: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
Original Wraps. Condition: Good>Very Good. Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (illustrator). Reprint. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Cavafy was an ethnic Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. Cavafy was instrumental in the revival and recognition of Greek poetry both at home and abroad. His poems are, typically, concise but intimate evocations of real or literary figures and milieu that have played roles in Greek culture.An ex-library copy with title page missing and marks inside front cover, otherwise the text is complete, tight, clean and neat. .261p. notes bibliography. Good>Very Good. Seller Inventory # 047057
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Seller: Hellertown Books, Hellertown, PA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Seller Inventory # 41058H84216