Geography for the lost - Softcover

Kassabova, Kapka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852247657 ISBN 13: 9781852247652

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, 2007

Synopsis

Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well traveled 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. This is what we all are, have been, or will be.

About this title

About the Author:

Kapka Kassabova was born in 1973 and grew up in Bulgaria until she was 16. Her family emigrated first to Britain, then to New Zealand where she lived until 2004. Her previous poetry book, Someone else's life (Bloodaxe Books, 2003), included work from two collections published in New Zealand as well as new poems. She has also published two novels with Penguin, Reconnaissance, winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Asia-Pacific, and Love in the Land of Midas. She now lives in Edinburgh and writes travel guides.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1852247657
• ISBN 13: 9781852247652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72