{"product_id":"men-of-the-same-name-9781800175136","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 satirical, elegiac and memorable, bringing together lost books, burned libraries, Goethe, the lives and deaths of Presocratic philosophers, Paris, statues of Niobe, patterns in history, war, displacement, the evils of ambition, and Pachynian tuna.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if, Jones asks, instead of using the ancient world as a metaphor for modern life, the poet uses modern life as a metaphor for the ancient world? Working in this way between allegory and reality, the book rethinks poetry's changing relationships to politics and our historical moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA celebrated translator of Cavafy, here Jones blends translation (Goethe, Lucian of Samosata, Diogenes Laertius) with original poetry so that the world of his writing is distant yet familiar, both unequivocally our own and boldly inventive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800175136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64","brand":"Evan Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52733663707317,"sku":"9781800175136","price":17.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/men-of-the-same-name-9781800175136","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}