My Nights in Cupid's Palace by Martha Kapos
A collection of poems that 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. It explores ambivalent or intense emotional states which shed light on childhood, adulthood and the drama of infantile feelings in adult relationships.
'Martha Kapos restores to the everyday its Alost profileAThe quotidian and the life of the mind are perfectly balanced, and her voice has that rare combination of freshness and maturity.' Moniza Alvi'If one were to imagine a tradition for her, it would include Mallarme and also Wallace Stevens, but these poems are highly original and she has found her own rich and confident voice with which to speak them.' D. M. Black
Martha Kapos was born in New Haven, Connecticut and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Having completed a degree in Classics at Harvard, she came to London for a gap year to study Painting and the History of Art at the Chelsea School of Art and never returned. She stayed on to teach there until 2001 when she became Assistant Poetry Editor of Poetry London. Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines including Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry Wales, The Manhattan Review, and the TLS. A selection of her poems appeared in Oxford Poets 2002: An Anthology published by Carcanet. My Nights in Cupid s Palace (Enitharmon, 2003) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and won the Jerwood/Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781900564434 |
| ISBN 10 | 1900564432 |
| Title | My Nights in Cupid's Palace |
| Author | Martha Kapos |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Enitharmon Press |
| Year published | 2003-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 56 |
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