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Imagining Alexandria: Poems in Memory of C.P. Cavafy "Bernieres, Louis de"

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom Vintage 15/08/2013Description: 112 HardbackISBN:
  • 9781846557439
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.914 LOU
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Contents:
Poetry by individual poets
Summary: "Poetry was Louis de Bernieres' first literary love and Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction. De Bernieres was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, and since then he has always travelled with a book of Cavafy's poetry in his pocket. Not surprisingly, his own poems about the distant past, the erotic and the philosophical owe much to the influence of the great Alexandrian poet. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Donald Sammut, this is a collection rich in sensuality, nostalgia, and music."
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A gift book of poems from the author of Corelli's Mandolin , Louis de Bernières, beautifully illustrated with line drawings

Poetry was Louis de Bernières' first literary love and Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction. De Bernières was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, and since then he has always traveled with a book of Cavafy's poetry in his pocket. Not surprisingly, his own poems about the distant past, the erotic, and the philosophical owe much to the influence of the great Alexandrian poet. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Donald Sammut, this is a collection rich in sensuality, nostalgia, and music.

Poetry by individual poets

"Poetry was Louis de Bernieres' first literary love and Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction. De Bernieres was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, and since then he has always travelled with a book of Cavafy's poetry in his pocket. Not surprisingly, his own poems about the distant past, the erotic and the philosophical owe much to the influence of the great Alexandrian poet. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Donald Sammut, this is a collection rich in sensuality, nostalgia, and music."

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