C.P. Cavafy. Remember, Body … Translated by Avi Sharon. Penguin Little Black Classics, 43. London: Penguin Books, 2015. vii, 54 p. <Poetry>

ISBN 0141397462 pbk; 9780141397467 pbk

"Moving, sensual verses on nostalgia and desire by the masterful early twentieth-century Greek poet" (back cover). This selection is taken from The Selected Poems of Cavafy, translated by Avi Sharon. Penguin Classics, 2008 {4.402}.

Contains: 

“Desires” (p. 1); “Candles” (p. 2); “Dangerous Things” (p. 3); “Very Seldom” (p. 4); “Painted Things” (p. 5); “Morning Sea” (p. 6); “The Café Entrance” (p. 7); “One Night” (p. 8); “Return” (p. 9); “Far Away” (p. 10); “He Vows” (p. 11); “I Left” (p. 12); “Chandelier” (p. 13); “Since Nine O’Clock” (p. 14); “Insight” (p. 15); “When They Come Alive” (p. 16); “Pleasure” (p. 17); “I Have Gazed So Much” (p. 18); “In the Street” (p. 19); “The Tobacconist’s Window” (p. 20); “The Passage” (p. 21); “In the Evening” (p. 22); “Grey” (p. 23); “Beside the House” (p. 24); “The Next Table” (p. 25); “Remember, Body…” (p. 26); “Days of 1903” (p. 27); “The Afternoon Sun” (p. 28); “To Live” (p. 29); “On the Ship” (p. 30); “That They May Come” (p. 31); “Their Beginning” (p. 32); “In an Old Book” (p. 33); “In Despair” (p. 34); “Before Time Could Change Them” (p. 35); “He Came to Read” (p. 36); “In the Twenty-fifth Year of His Life” (p. 37); “The Dreary Village” (p. 38); “In the Bars” (p. 39); “Days of 1896” (p. 40); “Two Young Men, Twenty-three to Twenty-four Years Old” (pp. 41-42); “Days of 1901” (p. 43); “Days of 1908” (pp. 44-45); “A Young Writer – in His Twenty-fourth Year” (p. 46); “Picture of a Young Man of Twenty-three, Painted by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur” (p. 47); “Days of 1909, 1910 and 1911” (p. 48); “Lovely Flowers, White Ones, That Matched So Well” (pp. 49-50); “In the Same Space” (p. 51); “The Mirror in the Entrance Hall” (p. 52); “He Asked about the Quality” (pp. 53-54).