C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
Cavafy, C.P., Translated, w/ introduction & commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Add to basketEXTRAORDINARY: BRILLiANT: VIVID: POWERFUL: SEARCHING: MOVING: WISE: SENSUOUS: RICH: STRONG: DEFINITIVE: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig.March 2009) First Printing * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.48", 0.96 kg, lxvi+558 (624) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: An extraordinary literary event: the simultaneous publication of a brilliant & vivid new rendering of C. P. Cavafy's "Collected Poems" & the first-ever English translation of the poet's 30 "Unfinished Poems", both featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English?by the acclaimed critic, scholar, & award-winning author of "The Lost". No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history & culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, w/ such taut energy, the early-20th-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy & irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933). After more than a decade of work & study, w/ the cooperation of the Cavafy Archive in Athens, Daniel Mendelsohn (a classics scholar who alone among Cavafy's translators shares the poet's deep intimacy w/ the ancient world) is uniquely positioned to give readers full access to Cavafy's genius. And we hear for the first time the remarkable music of his poetry: the sensuous rhymes, rich assonances, & strong rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators. The more than 250 works collected in this volume, comprising all of the Published, Repudiated, & Unpublished poems, cover the vast sweep of Hellenic civilization, from the Trojan War through Cavafy's own lifetime. Powerfully moving, searching & wise, whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death, Cavafy's poetry brilliantly makes the historical personal, & vice versa. He brings to his profound exploration of longing & loneliness, fate & loss, memory & identity the historian's assessing eye as well as the poet's compassionate heart. W/ its in-depth introduction & a helpful commentary that situates each work in a rich historical, literary, & biographical context, this revelatory new translation, together w/ "The Unfinished Poems", is a cause for celebration?the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "W/ deep feeling, exacting care, & extraordinary intelligence, Daniel Mendelsohn has given us a stunning new version of the "Collected Poems" of Constantine Cavafy, along w/ one of the most exciting discoveries in recent memory--"The Unfinished Poems" of this great, eternal poet. All of us who care about literature are indebted to Mendelsohn: we will be mining these thrilling books for years to come." -Edward Hirsch. "In a vigorous labor of literary love, Daniel Mendelsohn has not only handed us the definitive & complete Cavafy, but he has brought to light for the first time in English this major poet's revealing final poems. Meticulously edited & smartly annotated, the poems fully embody Cavafy the sensualist & the antiquarian & his distinctive lyric shuttling between the ancient & modern worlds." -Billy Collins * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR-EDITOR: Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews & essays on literary & cultural subjects appear regularly in numerous publications, including The New Yorker & The New York Review of Books. His previous books include the memoir "The Elusive Embrace", a New York Times Notable Book & a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, & the international best seller "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million", which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix Médicis, & many other honors. Mr. Mendelsohn is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, & the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He teaches at Bard College. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this EXCELLENT copy for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL . . .
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