{"product_id":"men-of-the-same-name","title":"Men of the Same Name","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMen of the Same Name\u003c\/i\u003e is \nsatirical, elegiac and memorable, bringing together lost books, burned \nlibraries, Goethe, the lives and deaths of Presocratic philosophers, \nParis, statues of Niobe, patterns in history, war, displacement, the \nevils of ambition, and Pachynian tuna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if, Jones asks, instead of using the ancient world as a metaphor\n for modern life, the poet uses modern life as a metaphor for the \nancient world? Working in this way between allegory and reality, the \nbook rethinks poetry's changing relationships to politics and our \nhistorical moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA celebrated translator of Cavafy, here Jones blends translation \n(Goethe, Lucian of Samosata, Diogenes Laertius) with original poetry so \nthat the world of his writing is distant yet familiar, both \nunequivocally our own and boldly inventive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283301744984,"sku":"9781800175136","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800175136.jpg?v=1777961745","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/men-of-the-same-name","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}