{"product_id":"c-p-cavafy-the-unfinished-poems","title":"C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems","description":"A remarkable discovery, an extraordinary literary event: the never-before translated \u003ci\u003eUnfinished\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e of the great Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, published for the first time in English alongside a revelatory new rendering of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e—translated and annotated by the renowned critic, classicist, and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lost.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he died in 1933 at the age of seventy, C. P. Cavafy left the drafts of thirty poems among his papers—some of them masterly, nearly completed verses, others less finished texts, all accompanied by notes and variants that offer tantalizing glimpses of the poet’s sometimes years-long method of rewriting and revision. These remarkable poems, each meticulously filed in its own dossier by the poet, remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades before being published in a definitive scholarly edition in Greek in 1994. Now, with the cooperation and support of the Archive, Daniel Mendelsohn brings this hitherto unknown creative outpouring to English readers for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful works in their own right—from a six-line verse on the “birth of a poem” to a longer work that brilliantly paints the autumn of Byzantium in unexpectedly erotic colors—these unfinished poems\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eprovide a thrilling window into Cavafy’s writing process during the last decade of his life, the years of his greatest production. They brilliantly explore, often in new ways, the poet’s well-established themes: identity and time, the agonies of desire and the ironies of history, cultural decline and reappropriation of the past. And, like the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems, \u003c\/i\u003et\u003ci\u003ehe Unfinished Poems\u003c\/i\u003e offers a substantial introduction and notes that provide helpful historical, textual, and literary background for each poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis splendid translation, together with the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems,\u003c\/i\u003e is a cause for celebration—the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50955091935520,"sku":"9780307265463","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780307265463.jpg?v=1763702461","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/c-p-cavafy-the-unfinished-poems","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}