C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems - Bilingual Edition

C.  P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a  collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death.  Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in  twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the  most powerful in modern European literature.
This revised  bilingual edition of Collected Poems offers the reader the original  Greek texts facing what are now recognized as the standard English  translations of Cavafy's poetry. It is this translation that best  captures the poet's mixture of formal and idiomatic language and that  preserves the immediacy of his increasingly frank treatment of  homosexual eroticism, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his  astute political ironies. This new bilingual edition also features the  notes of editor George Savidis and a new foreword by Robert Pinsky.