Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of Future Generations' Whose Time Is Now
Briefly

When I was about 10, the teacher at the Catholic school I attended in Massachusetts asked students to bring in a poem from home to share with the class.Looking at our bookshelves, I plucked out a slim volume by Constantine P. Cavafy.Many of its poems were short, manageable to read out loud and gorgeously plain-spoken.
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