Daniel Mendelsohn to present C.P. Cavafy: Collected and Unfinished Poems at Labyrinth Books in Princeton

Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by PNN Editor in Books, Events

At 5:30PM on Wednesday, September 30th at Labyrinth Books on Nassau Street in Princeton an extraordinary literary event will take place: the simultaneous publication of a brilliant and vivid new rendering of C.P. Cavafy’s Collected Poems and the first-ever English translation of the poet’s thirty Unfinished Poems, both featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English — by the acclaimed critic, scholar, and award-winning author of The Lost, Daniel Mendelsohn.

No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Cavafy. Now, after more than a decade of work and study, and with the cooperation of the Cavafy Archive in Athens, Daniel Mendelsohn is uniquely positioned to give readers full access to Cavafy’s genius.

Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear regularly in numerous publications, including The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His previous books include the memoir The Elusive Embrace and the international bestseller The Lost, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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