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John Chioles

Book Reviews

Summer 1988

Alexandrian Circles

By John Chioles

The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History by Gregory Jusdanis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. 193 pages. $29.00.   Most poets in our century have written discursively, leaving us with […]

Poetry

Summer/Fall 1999

Awaiting the Barbarians

By C. Cavafy, translated by John Chioles

From the Greek. —What are we waiting for assembled in the marketplace?    It’s the barbarians who are coming today. —Why this inactivity taking over the Senate?  What makes the Senators […]