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""Jusdanis and Jeffreys have produced an important biography of an indispensable poet--the first to appear in English in nearly fifty years . . . We owe them a debt for assembling this mosaic of a life and sending us back to the poems where he really resides--at a slight angle to the universe."" --David Mason, The Wall Street Journal ""Deeply researched and engaging . . . [Jusdanis and Jeffreys] recreate [Cavafy's] world and investigate his place in it."" --Michael Nott, The Guardian ""A richly detailed and clear-sighted account of Cavafy's life and work . . . Above all, it sends one back to Cavafy's extraordinary body of poems both enlightened and newly enthused."" --Peter Parker, The Spectator ""Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys pull the threads of [Cavafy's] life together, creating an admirable tapestry . . . A wonderful miscellanea about Cavafy and the world around him."" --Evan Jones, The Times Literary Supplement ""[Jusdanis and Jeffreys] have found the perfect 'form' for presenting the complex figure of Cavafy--a relatively solitary and self-determined man who intersected with the events of his time and the people in his life, while still establishing his own sense of time and history in a series of unique poetic reflections."" --Scott Bradfield, The New Republic ""Readers will come away from Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography very much feeling they know the man . . . Jusdanis and Jeffreys have brought him into closer focus than ever before."" --Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review ""Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis . . . have trawled monographs, memoirs, letters and the Cavafy Archive to bring [the poet] to life, not just in middle age but also as a youth in Liverpool, London and Istanbul . . . A nuanced and original portrait: no hagiography, but warmly empathetic."" --Maria Margaronis, The Literary Review ""[The authors'] scholarship is exemplary, but quietly within it beats an unmistakable affection for their subject . . . extensive and rewarding."" --Tim Pfaff, The Bay Area Reporter ""A quirky, revelatory biography of the celebrated Greek poet . . . The authors conclude by discussing one of Cavafy's most intriguing traits, his obsessive, self-confident need to be read and known . . . coupled with his 'crippling self-doubt.' A dive into reams of primary source materials reveals a 'new' Cavafy."" --Kirkus Reviews ""A painstakingly researched biography of a quiet Alexandrian who left few traces of his life but whose body of poems the world worships and never tires of translating."" --André Aciman, author of Out of Egypt and Call Me by Your Name ""In the fifty years since a biography of the poet last appeared, Constantine Cavafy has emerged not only as the great Greek poet of the twentieth century but as an essential poet of modernity on the world stage, an exile (in many senses of the word) whose work seamlessly enfolds history, memory, and desire. Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys have given us an extraordinary biography, eminently readable and as unconventional, scholarly, and impassioned as its subject."" --Mark Doty, author of My Alexandria ""There are four great poets who've written about gay male life--C. P. Cavafy, Thom Gunn, James Merrill, and John Wieners. Before anyone else, Cavafy (1863-1933) spoke for young men with big desires and little money, excluded from society and consumed by love and lust. In his twenties he became ill with debauchery; in his maturity he turned all those wasted nights into the work of a world genius, the most important Greek poet of the twentieth century."" --Edmund White, author of The Loves of My Life

""A painstakingly researched biography of a quiet Alexandrian who left few traces of his life but whose body of poems the world worships and never tires of translating."" --ANDRÉ ACIMAN, author of Out of Egypt and Call Me by Your Name ""In the fifty years since a biography of the poet last appeared, Constantine Cavafy has emerged not only as the great Greek poet of the twentieth century but as an essential poet of modernity on the world stage, an exile (in many senses of the word) whose work seamlessly enfolds history, memory, and desire. Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys have given us an extraordinary biography, eminently readable and as unconventional, scholarly, and impassioned as its subject."" --MARK DOTY, author of My Alexandria ""There are four great poets who've written about gay male life--C. P. Cavafy, Thom Gunn, James Merrill, and John Wieners. Before anyone else, Cavafy (1863-1933) spoke for young men with big desires and little money, excluded from society and consumed by love and lust. In his twenties he became ill with debauchery; in his maturity he turned all those wasted nights into the work of a world genius, the most important Greek poet of the twentieth century."" --EDMUND WHITE, author of The Loves of My Life

""A quirky, revelatory biography of the celebrated Greek poet . . . The authors conclude by discussing one of Cavafy's most intriguing traits, his obsessive, self-confident need to be read and known . . . coupled with his 'crippling self-doubt.' A dive into reams of primary source materials reveals a 'new' Cavafy."" --Kirkus Reviews ""A painstakingly researched biography of a quiet Alexandrian who left few traces of his life but whose body of poems the world worships and never tires of translating."" --ANDRÉ ACIMAN, author of Out of Egypt and Call Me by Your Name ""In the fifty years since a biography of the poet last appeared, Constantine Cavafy has emerged not only as the great Greek poet of the twentieth century but as an essential poet of modernity on the world stage, an exile (in many senses of the word) whose work seamlessly enfolds history, memory, and desire. Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys have given us an extraordinary biography, eminently readable and as unconventional, scholarly, and impassioned as its subject."" --MARK DOTY, author of My Alexandria ""There are four great poets who've written about gay male life--C. P. Cavafy, Thom Gunn, James Merrill, and John Wieners. Before anyone else, Cavafy (1863-1933) spoke for young men with big desires and little money, excluded from society and consumed by love and lust. In his twenties he became ill with debauchery; in his maturity he turned all those wasted nights into the work of a world genius, the most important Greek poet of the twentieth century."" --EDMUND WHITE, author of The Loves of My Life

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A Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor at the Ohio State University, Gregory Jusdanis is the author of The Poetics of Cavafy, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture, The Necessary Nation, Fiction Agonistes, and A Tremendous Thing. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Peter Jeffreys teaches at Suffolk University in Boston and has written and edited a number of books on Cavafy.

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