Status Updates From The barbarians arrive today...

Have to abandon this book. While refreshing in thematically (vs. chronologically) organizing the poems, themes are borrowed from another (painstakingly researched!) study not properly credited (a mention in passing would not do it). The translations sometimes drown Cavafy in current colloquialisms and, in some poems, the text is even changed/adjusted to reflect the translator's interpretation, not Cavafy's original.