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Geography for the Lost
Kapka Kassabova
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Description for Geography for the Lost
Paperback. Contains poems that speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, in love, in the very quickness of life. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 6. Weight in Grams: 120. 64 pages. Contains poems that speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, in love, in the very quickness of life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 6. Weight: 120.
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, in love, in the very quickness of life. The voices speaking here – from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ – are the voices of the heart-sick, the culturally jet-lagged, people from photographs, the “tenants” of lives, cities and destinies. ... Read more
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, in love, in the very quickness of life. The voices speaking here – from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ – are the voices of the heart-sick, the culturally jet-lagged, people from photographs, the “tenants” of lives, cities and destinies. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247652
SKU
V9781852247652
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About Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova is a cross-genre writer with a special interest in deep journeying, exploring human geographies, and the hidden narratives of places, people, and peripheries. She has published two poetry collections with Bloodaxe, Someone else's life (2003) and Geography for the Lost (2007). Born in 1973 in Sofia, Bulgaria, to scientist parents, she studied at the French Lycée in Sofia. ... Read more
Reviews for Geography for the Lost
In the suitcase that she has mentally lived out of since she was a little girl, Kapka Kassabova has brought the turbulent memories of 20th century European history with her to New Zealand, where she recollects bad dreams in comparative tranquillity, and always with the phrasing of a born musician. If her finely pitched lyricism is the first thing that ... Read more