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Robin Coste Lewis's "Archive of Desire"

Robin Coste Lewis's "Archive of Desire"

Update: 2025-11-29
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Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Robin Coste Lewis about her new poetry collection, "Archive of Desire." The four part collection emerged out of a collaboration with other artists commissioned by the Onassis Foundation to celebrate the 160th birthday of poet Constantin Cavafy, exploring Lewis's encounters with Cavafy's life, work, and sexual history. Lewis discusses her experience poring over the materials from Cavafy's archives in Athens, how his poetry still speaks to us so profoundly more than a century later, and their queer kinship.
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Robin Coste Lewis's "Archive of Desire"

Robin Coste Lewis's "Archive of Desire"

LA Review of Books