{"product_id":"the-selected-poems-of-cavafy-by-c-p-cavafy-9780141185613","title":"The Selected Poems of Cavafy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eC. P. 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","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-selected-poems-of-cavafy-by-c-p-cavafy-9780141185613","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}