{"title":"C. P. Cavafy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eC. P. Cavafy\u003c\/strong\u003e presents a rich tapestry of poetry that delves into history, desire, and the nuances of human experience. His works often blend classical themes with intimate reflections, offering readers a contemplative journey through time and emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin this collection, explore editions such as \u003cem\u003eRemember, Body...\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Selected Poems of Cavafy\u003c\/em\u003e, showcasing his distinctive voice in arts and culture. 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Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues, and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions from the author in such poems as \u003cem\u003eAnna Comnena\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYou did not understand\u003c\/em\u003e, while precise moments of history are seen with a sense of foreboding, as in \u003cem\u003eIdes of March\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe God Abandoning Antony\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNero's Deadline\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn poems that draw on his own life and surroundings, Cavafy recalls illicit trysts or glimpses of beautiful young men in \u003cem\u003eOne Night\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI have gazed so much\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Cafe Entrance\u003c\/em\u003e, and creates exquisite miniatures of everyday life in \u003cem\u003eAn Old Man\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOf the Shop\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Selected Poems of Cavafy\u003c\/em\u003e was the winner of the prestigious Harold Morton Landon Translation Award in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46555863187692,"sku":"9780141185613","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6658113482238.jpg?v=1750122640"},{"product_id":"c-p-cavafy-by-c-p-cavafy-9780691264646","title":"C. 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Realizing that Cavafy's language is closer to the spoken idiom than that of other leading Greek poets of his time, and that earlier translations have failed to capture the immediate, colloquial qualities of Cavafy's voice, Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard have rendered his most significant and characteristic poems in a style and rhythm as natural and apt in English as the poet's is in Greek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1972, The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471522513132,"sku":"9780691619385","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691619385-selected-poems-by-c-p-cavafy.jpg?v=1775245812"},{"product_id":"c-p-cavafy-by-c-p-cavafy-9780691015378","title":"C. P. Cavafy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eC. P. Cavafy\u003c\/em\u003e (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. 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