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From renowned painter and photographer Dimitris Yeros comes a collection of photographs inspired by the classic poems of one of Greece’s greatest writers: Constantine P. Cavafy. Yeros has produced nearly seventy photographic illustrations using a mixture of models and fellow members of the artistic community such as Gore Vidal, Clive Barker, and Jeff Koons as his subjects. These striking images bring out every nuance of Cavafy’s writing—with romance, intrigue, humor, despair, and eroticism each playing a part. In addition to its visual richness, the book presents new English poetic translations of Cavafy by David Connolly (Eroticon, Journal of an Unseen April) which are faithful to the original Greek works while bringing them to life for a new group of readers.

Stunning portraiture and erotic photography paired with new English translations of the poetry of C. P. Cavafy—called the greatest modern Mediterranean poet. Literary, artistic, celebrity and gay interest.

C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems

Константинос Кавафіс (1863 – 1933) – видатний грецький поет ХХ ст., творчість якого відкрила світу новогрецьку літературу. Розквіт його творчості припав саме на ХХ ст., хоча писав він здебільшого про елліністичну епоху або Візантію. Напевне, це можна пояснити тим, що Кавафіс народився і прожив більшу частину свого життя в Александрії, яка вважається своєрідним…

Cavafy is by far the most translated and most well-known Greek poet internationally. His work exists in multiple translations in a wide range of languages and major 20th-century poets as diverse as Auden, Brecht, Brodsky, Durrell, Milosz and Montale have all paid tribute to Cavafy, either by writing poems "in the style of Cavafy", or by openly admitting their debt to his poetry in their own work. Whether his subject matter is historical, philosophical or sensual, Cavafy's unique poetic voice is always recognizable by its ironical, suave, witty, world-weary and aesthetic tones. It is a voice which lends itself to translation. Indeed, translations of Cavafy's poetry are the best possible counter to the often quoted platitude that poetry is what is lost in translation. Cavafy's is a poetry that not only survives but actually thrives in translation. (From the publisher) "Τhe inventor of a modernity and an Alexandrianism of his own, so pungent and of such sad, dry elevation that his work transcends his language and his century". ( Robert Fitzgerald, Poet and Translator) "Cavafy is for me not only the great poet of the Levant, but of all culture in decline - which makes him universal in this century". (John Fowles, Novelist) "His complete sincerity, his angular stance to the world, his tenderness that is combined with the accuracy of a surgeon, his awareness of the past in the present and of the present in the past, his meticulousness, his grandeur - these are some of the qualities which no reader can fail to observe and which, singly and together, make him one of the greatest writers of our times". (Rex Warner, Classicist and Translator)

Константинос Кавафіс (1863—1933) — видатний грецький поет ХХ ст., творчість якого відкрила світу новогрецьку літературу. Розквіт його творчості припав саме на ХХ ст., хоча писав він здебільшого про елліністичну епоху або Візантію. Напевне, це можна пояснити тим, що Кавафіс народився і прожив більшу частину свого життя в Александрії, яка вважається своєрідним символом еллінізму, відіграючи особливу роль у розвитку культури, науки та мистецтва цього періоду. Може, саме тому поету вдалося органічно