Cavafy Poems

<p>In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy's <i>Complete Poems </i>by the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet's best-loved works for a Pocket Poets edition including such favorites as Waiting for the Barbarians Ithaca and The God Abandons Antony. Whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death Cavafy's poems make the<br>historic profoundly and movingly personal. A towering figure of twentieth-century poetry Cavafy is a stellar addition to the Everyman Pocket Poets series.</p>