Approaching ecstasy Pours Cavafy’s Poetry into Liquid Bones in Suits
There’s no question that Cavafy is a major poet, but his reputation had to wait until society caught up to him. Though he worked as a nondescript ministry clerk for years, Cavafy made of his poetry a treasure house of the erotic, sensual, visceral–every fleeting thing that shot through the body, he trapped not in amber but in ink, refusing (as Auden later wrote of him) “to pretend that his memories of moments of sensual pleasure are unhappy or spoiled by feelings of guilt.”
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Seattle Symphony presents Bartok opera Bluebeard's Castle @ Benaroya Hall
Thursday 17th of May 2012 - 07:30 PMJames Fallows talks China and Space @ Town Hall (downstairs)
Thursday 17th of May 2012 - 07:30 AMSIFF 2012 opens with its Red Carpet Experience @ McCaw Hall
Thursday 17th of May 2012 - 05:30 PMFREE: Yes, *that* John Irving reads from "In One Person" @ Town Hall
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