Gogol in Rome

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Katia Kapovich Gogol in Rome
Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Katia Kapovich is a bilingual poet writing in English and Russian. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her Russian verse has received wide acclaim in her country of origin. Her English-language poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, Jacket, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Stand, The Dark Horse, and numerous other journals. The US Library of Congress awarded her its 2001 Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship. Kapovich co-edits Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844710461 ISBN-10: 1844710467 ISBN-13: 9781844710461 Author: Katia Kapovich Title: Gogol in Rome Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 15-Sep-04 Extent: 112pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 7 mm Weight: 168 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 9.99 Price: USD 15.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£9.99~~ £7.99 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$15.95~~ $12.76	Short description/annotation: SHORTLISTED FOR THE JERWOOD ALDEBURGH FIRST COLLECTION PRIZE. Katia Kapovich creates a gallery of narrative portraits that are both unheroic and unforgettable – mute children, laundering women, Moldovan homosexuals, beggars, pickpockets, peasants, Israeli Bedouins, Russian draftees, Soviet boy scouts, political convicts, all at home in Dostoyevskian, borderline worlds. She documents the great beauty that can emerge from marginalized existence. Main description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE JERWOOD ALDEBURGH FIRST COLLECTION PRIZE. Katia 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. Table of contents: In the Bathhouse Gogol in Rome The Birth of Anarchy Modus Operandi A Dance without Music Moscow — Berlin A Fly on the Faucet A Waltz A Farewell to Russian Symbolism Double Vision At the Kishinev School for Deaf and Mute Children Prague They Called Them “Blue” A Komsomol Act Self-Portrait in Pajamas Golden Fleece A Paper Plane to Nowhere A Wolf Anna-Maria and the Others Apartment 75 The Night before the Afghan War Something to Oppose A Haircut A Death Orpheus in the Subway Rainbow Blacklisted Titles Hurdles At the Young Pioneer Camp Veronica’s Secret Life Silhouette Forbidden Fellini Privacy A Shave The Smell of Salt Dog-Ends A Beggar Gogol in Jerusalem The Tank Farm Diogenes Tanya A Landscape with Laundering Women Christmas 2001 The Green One over There Black and White The Three of Us The Rattle Painting a Room Stanzas to the Stairwell Twelve Sheep Rendezvous on Sand Totaled Things in the Morning My Sense of Time Camping in Buzzards Bay The Law of Perspective The Tale of Clear Pond The Dig A Gentle Hibernation of Lovers Matchmaking Gogol in New York The Rat The Summer Gardens Hemophilia Axis Mundi Generation K View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (60 KB) Excerpt from book: Apartment 75 The obese woman who used to wake up our whole house by starting her Subaru at 6 a.m. has committed suicide. Snow hangs like a set of unlaundered sheets in the windows. When I walked into her seventh floor studio, the standard lamp was still on, but could only light itself, refusing to interfere with the dull dusk of the interior the police had already searched. For the first time, I felt an urge to look at her face and perhaps to see something more distinctly than the triviality of neighborhood permits and the mystery of suicide allows, but her features were shut down without offense. I only remember a chair missing its rear legs, shoved up against the wall for balance. Unpublished endorsement : Katia Kapovich possesses one of the freshest, most arresting poetic voices I have heard in a long time. She can sway effortlessly from the most common detail into zones of sheer imaginative wonder. That she offers a rare view of a poet’s daily life in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia only adds to the broader significance of her writing. Gogol in Rome is a powerful gathering of her best work in English. Billy Collins Unpublished endorsement : Katia Kapovich’s indelible vignettes introduce us to the eerily desolate landscapes of post-Glasnost Eastern Europe, often through the filter of that dream-like, transitional consciousness peculiar to the recent émigré to America. Her poetry is singularly vivid, poignant, and manages to capture in miniature what Babel and Chekhov achieve in their finest tales. August Kleinzahler Review quote: 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