Someone Else's Life.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kassabova, Kapka.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand--Poetry.

Refugees--Poetry.

Refugees.

New Zealand.

Local Subjects:

New Zealand--Poetry.

Refugees--Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kapka Kassabova quickly attracted attention with her first collection All Roads Lead to the Sea (AUP, 1997), which won the NZSA Award for the Best First Book of Poetry, and her subsequent book, Dismemberment (AUP, 1998). With both these books out of print, Someone Else's Life includes 26 poems from the first two and a substantial number of new poems, responding to new places and incidents, only confirm Kassabova's gifts. Drawing on a European tradition in several languages, and on a global life experience characteristic of the times, Kassabova's lyric voice carries memories of loss, isol

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Books by Kapka Kassabova; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; PLACE; Place; My Life in Two Parts; In the Shadow of the Bridge; Angel's Lament; Immigrant Architectures; Amnesia at Eaglereach; The Pied Piper of Buenos Aires; One Sunday in New Zealand; Watching a man fail to drown himself; Nature morte; The complete circle; Balinese; Indian Story; Berlin - Mitte; Someone else's life; Looking for Lieselotte Stein; Railway dream; The Crescendo; In transit; Refugees; The Pacific seen from above; GATE TO ALL YOUR FAREWELLS; Cicadas

Lemon Tree Witnessing Man Being Built InTwo Nights; Embracing the umbrella; Twelve ways to photograph white lilies; It never entered my mind; How to survive in the desert; The Secret; How we make love; The Hour of Giving Up; The Crossing; The room, the field; Gate to All Your Farewells; DISMEMBERMENT; Calculations; And they were both right; The Sphinx; Poem about Futility; Ciphers; Still life; Sleeper; No one can touch a laughing man; The Door; Dismemberment; The orchestra on the roof of the city; Mirages; Preparation for the big emptiness; Marseille; The whore of memory; Oyster

A city of pierced amphoraeALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SEA; FROM The immigrant cycle; Coming to paradise; Security; Razor salesman; My father climbing to the stars; My mother's plants; Song of the Stranger; Sick of the ocean; Insularity; All roads lead to the sea; About the Author; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781869406158

186940615X