Gogol in Rome by Katia Kapovich
Shortlisted for The Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection PrizeKatia Kapovich's poems embody a personal kind of lyricism. Often focused on specifics of locality and displacement, alienation and marginality, they remodel the actual and infuse poetic thought with a dual sense of time, where the past and the present live simultaneously. Here is a gallery of narrative portraits that are both unheroic and unforgettable - deaf and mute children, laundering women, Moldovan homosexuals, beggars, pickpockets, mental patients, black-marketeers, peasants, troubled teens, unknown artists, Israeli Bedouins, Russian draftees, Soviet boy scouts, political convicts ... Kapovich's characters are at home in Dostoyevskian, borderline worlds. Combining the polyphony of their voices into the registers of her own, different voice, the poet documents the great beauty that can sometimes emerge out of marginalized existence.These are poems of grave social and psychic straits: a troubled childhood, a stay in a mental hospital, and all the lacerations within and between selves engendered in exile
-- Dan Chiasson * Poetry *
Katia Kapovich is a bilingual poet writing in English and Russian. She is the author of five collections of Russian verse and of a book of English language poetry, Gogol in Rome (Salt, 2004), shortlisted for the Jerwood Alderburgh Prize 2005 in England. Her English poems have also appeared in the London Review of Books, The New Republic, The Independent, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, The Antioch Review, Jacket, and numerous other periodicals. She received the 2001 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress. In 2007 she will be Poet-in-Residence at Amherst College. Kapovich lives in Cambridge, MA, where she co-edits Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844710461 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844710467 |
| Title | Gogol in Rome |
| Author | Katia Kapovich |
| Series | Salt Modern Poets |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Year published | 2004-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for Poetry 2005 |
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