ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS

Selected Poems by

K.P. KAVAFIS

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translated by

Peter J. King and Andrea Christofidou

Contents

(Versions of some these translations have appeared in the Oxford Magazine and the Worcester Record.)

  1. Introduction
  2. Oedipus
  3. Confusion
  4. Salome
  5. An Old Man
  6. The Horses of Achilles
  7. A Prayer
  8. Death of a General
  9. King Claudius
  10. Enemies
  11. When the Watchman Saw the Light
  12. Interruption
  13. The Souls of Aged Men
  14. The Windows
  15. Artificial Flowers
  16. Thermopylaes
  17. Desires
  18. The September of 1903
  19. The December of 1903
  20. The January of 1904
  21. On the Stairs
  22. At the Theatre
  23. Faithlessness
  24. Waiting for the Barbarians
  25. Boredom
  26. The City
  27. The Satrapy
  28. Antony's Abandoned by the God
  29. Ionian
  30. He Vows
  31. Days of 1903
  32. The Tobacconist's Window
  33. Body, recall....
  34. A Craftsman of Kraters
  35. In the Wineshops

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