"For the Shop": For the Extraordinary
This issue of Cinematic Poetry for Visionaries features a Cavafy poem titled "For the Shop."
Being singular, creative, imaginative, and visionary, Cavafy tells us, may not appeal to everybody. But that's not a reason to stop. Ever.
The slideshow below features the poem in the original Greek (left pages), and in English translation (right pages), a few verses per slide, followed by the entire set of images, and the entire poem. Click on the image for a pop-up.
Coda: A long time ago I started pairing Cavafy poems with sets of images, a process I termed "cinematic poetry." Think of it as storyboarding for a micro-movie whose script is the poem.
Cavafy poems feature succinct descriptions of spaces, places, and objects--the things I care about and design for.
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