Product Description: This book contains 162 poems: the 154 canonical Collected Poems, presented by year and within each year's order of composition and/or first printing, plus seven of the Uncollected Poems interspersed chronologically among them. Only one of his rejected, early poems has been included, 'Ode and Elegy of the Street,' used here as a kind of overture to the collection...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Translated from the Greek by George Economou. "C.P. Cavafy lived simultaneously in two worlds and refused to choose between them in terms of language, ethnicity, society, culture, or history. His poetry continues to inspire new translations because the Alexandrian writer, who reveled in ambiguity and undecidability, was a master of double meaning...read more

A collection of ancient Greek love poetry celebrates the themes of lust, longing, erotic love, and heartache in works, all newly translated, by Anakreon, Sappho, Archilochos, Kallimachos, Philodemos, Meleagros, and other master poets of the ancient world. 10,000 first printing.

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Product Description: Fiction. CENTURY DEAD CENTER contains George Economou's prose, poetry, translations, and visual art - a selection of work spanning eighteen years. The title piece drives home Walter Benjamin's claim, in "Theses on the Philosophy of History," that "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism...read more

Product Description: The poems in this book were published in various magazines.