ePublication © 2012 by Richard Hoffman

Copyright © 2005 by Richard Hoffman

Postscript © 2005 by Richard Hoffman

Originally published by Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995

Epigraph from Savidis, George, ed. C.P.Cavafy: Collected Poems, rev. ed.

© 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, transl. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.

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