tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post560814278330069261..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: C. P. Cavafy: State of the Art WebsiteIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-42666394807855959792009-04-30T05:58:00.000-04:002009-04-30T05:58:00.000-04:00Peter: The comments section not really a forum fo...Peter: The comments section not really a forum for personal poetry ... sorry ... though I'm not deleting the links because you were upfront honest ...<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-35701952617746671522009-04-30T05:57:00.000-04:002009-04-30T05:57:00.000-04:00Ed:
Try sending it to me via email - maybe I can ...Ed:<br /><br />Try sending it to me via email - maybe I can do something with the layout ... or send me the scan via email and maybe I can do something with that. <br /><br />I very much like his translation of the "Far Off" piece ...<br /><br />I need to dig into Seferis ...<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-19260096125044842372009-04-29T09:46:00.000-04:002009-04-29T09:46:00.000-04:00Don,
here is Rae Dalven,s "take" on that poem. ...Don,<br /><br />here is Rae Dalven,s "take" on that poem. Cavafy wrote it in 1914!<br /><br />FAR OFF<br /><br />I should like to relate this memory . . .<br />but it is so faded now . . . scarcely anything is left -<br />because it lies far off, in the years of my early manhood.<br /><br />A skin as if made of jasmine . . .<br />that night in August- was it August?- that night . . .<br /><br />I can just barely remember the eyes: they were, I think blue . . .<br />Ah yes, blue: a saphire blue.<br /><br /><br />and<br /><br />CANDLES written in 1911 is in tis "complete"<br /><br />but<br /><br />I just can't get the lines to lay right.... and as Cavafy was/is a-the master of the run-on line<br /><br />how it he got it on the page very important..<br /><br /><br />or<br /><br />I could skan <br />it (?)<br /><br /><br />EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-1882980595971227822009-04-29T08:22:00.000-04:002009-04-29T08:22:00.000-04:00you been in MY stacks again? no... I have the
19...you been in MY stacks again? no... I have the<br /><br />1961 edition with the Auden introduction .. a long (and winding title of....:<br /><br />A new translatiopn<br />of the foremost Greek poet of the 20 th century<br /><br /><br />THE COMPLETE POEMS OF<br /><br />CAVAFY<br /><br />translated, and with notes, <br /> By Rae Dalven<br /><br />etc as there is mor to the title...<br /><br />and, this guy Kraxpelex might wanna read (my ) Hexapoems I (on my site)<br /><br />the "other" 'boss' Greek poet that 'changed my life' : Seferis!Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com