As a follow-up to his translations for Yannis Ritsos-Poems (Libros), a panorama of the Greek poet's work from the mid-1930s to the 1980s, White Rock publisher and poet Manolis has translated Cavafy: Selected Poems (Ekstasis $22.95). The England-trained Greek poet Constantine Cavafy died in his birthplace of Alexandria in 1933, at age seventy. An associate of E.M. Forster, he lived mainly in Egypt, with his mother, until she died in 1899. Generally assumed to be a homosexual, Cavafy was uncelebrated in Greece until after his death. A film about his life was made in 1996. 978-1-897430-76-7

[BCBW 2012]