George Savidis Editor (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. 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 Anthology of poems, published and unpublished from Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933), translated w/biographical notes.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.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Poetry, Greek ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Condition: New. Bilingual. *Bilingual edition* New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 1.25 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes an appendix, notes on poems, bibliographical note and an index of poems. 496 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. This revised bilingual edition of Collected Poems offers the reader the original Greek texts facing what are now recognized as the standard English translations of Cavafy's poetry. It is this translation that best captures the poet's mixture of formal and idiomatic language and that preserves the immediacy of his increasingly frank treatment of homosexual eroticism, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. This new bilingual edition also features the notes of editor George Savidis and a new foreword by Robert Pinsky.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 480 pages. 9.00x6.10x1.50 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.