The Complete Poems of Cavafy : Expanded Edition

C P Cavafy
Houghton Mifflin
 9780156198202
0-15-619820-7

Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated.

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poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes the classic poem "Ithaca." Introduction by W. H. Auden. Translated by Rae Dalven.