Archive of desire : a poem in four parts for C.P. Cavafy /
Robin Coste Lewis delivers a slim 'performance in four parts,' which originated as an actual sound performance with the composer Vijay Iyer, cellist Jeffrey Ziegler and visual artist Julie Mehretu. With Lewis as the speaking voice, the quartet reflected on desire, diaspora and the liminal...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- I. Handkerchief
- II. Cavafy in fragments : an erasure
- III. Cavafy in Compton : self-portrait at 16 / A translation of Konstatin Kavafy's "I was asking about the quality"
- IV. She held a dove whose tail survives : self-portrait as the Acropolis
- v. Epilogue.