My nights in cupid's palace / Martha Kapos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapos, Martha.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

54 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Enitharmon, 2003.

Summary:

In this highly individual debut collection, poems produce a moving world where metaphor is the rule: a smile is the sun, the heart is a house, a woman is a map, Sleeping Beauty is a man. Delicately nuanced, ambivalent or intense emotional states are explored which shed light on childhood, adulthood and the drama of infantile feelings in adult relationships. In their use of a controlled language of colour and swift movement, and in their refusal of realism, these poems depart from some of the conventions of British poetry. They insist on the image as their vehicle to take the reader around some sharp corners in a vividly three-dimensional sensory world.

Contents:

An Angel Entered the Picture 9

The Night Kitchen 10

The Sun at the Table 11

Wolf in the Kitchen 12

Pantomime 14

Waiting for the Prince 16

Dog Rose 17

Tree-Poem for Apollo 18

Landing on the Sun 19

Don't put your hand on the table 20

Yes and No 22

Mute 24

The Pulse 25

The Sea Child 26

The Swing 28

Nymphet 30

The Rhyme of the Hatching Duck 31

Moving Picture 33

Cosmology 34

Equator 35

The Narrow Kiss 36

The Spectrum 37

The Origin of the Sexes According to Aristophanes 38

The Flood 39

Fishing 41

Small Anti-Depressant 42

Lost Profile 43

Fruit Tree 44

The Sun on a Road 45

Looking for the Heart 46

My Nights in Cupid's Palace 50

Finding My Bearings 51

The Blackberry 52

Accomplice 54.

ISBN:

1900564432

OCLC:

52566796