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Set in the West, Russia, Moldova and the Middle East, Katia Kapovich's "Cossacks and Bandits" explores the personal histories of survivors of sociopolitical and economic distress, who are the true modern hero and heroine. In the final reckoning, survival and dignity depend on creative thinking and a leap of the imagination.
List of contents
- Europe's Gate
- Tutor
- Hero
- They've killed the rat that lived alone
- The Bells
- A Burn
- Ink Rain
- The Girl That Saved a Village
- Commercial Shoot
- The Hardest Money I Made
- Satori
- Dum Spiro Scribo
- The Airport is Another Country
- The Race We Lost
- The Happiest Money I Made
- To Catch a Hedgehog
- Foreword
- In Absentia
- The Birth of Comedy out of the Spirit of Gossip
- A Movie Star over Drinks Upstairs at the Pudding
- The Ferry
- Call-Up
- In Nabokov's Memory
- Good Luck
- A Portrait of a Dog as an Older Guy
- Everyone Is Saved
- A Cup of Coffee on the Romanian Border
- Guest and Ghost
- Drawing Lesson
- Hermitage
- December 10
- Hide and Seek
- Saturday at Schoenhof's Foreign Books
- Flamenco Evening
- Locked Out
- Fifteen Minutes and Eight Years
- Laundromat
- A Treatise on Boredom
- Pot Luck
- Mike the Meshugganah
- Leaving Woodshole
- Writing Home
- Museum
- Sergeant D
- Mirage
- People versus Trees
- Clock Hands
- Sticking to the Truth
- Ward Number Six
- Liteinii Avenue, St. Petersburg
- The Kiss
- Lifer
- The Brawl
- Vertigo
- Happy Fainting
- The Stolen Skyscraper
- The Big Dig
- The Unswimmable
- Counting
- Strong Arms
- "Mother, I can still touch those winters..."
- Promenade
- To Whom It May Concern
- The Dive
- A Fight on My Hands
- Matches
- That One
- Confession of an Urbanist
- A Strange Language
- Bottom Line
- Who Else?
- Secrets
- Music
- A Kind of Normal Life
- The Best Line
- Postcard from Moscow
- The Seventh String
- Cossacks and Bandits
- The Wall
- Garbage Day
About the author
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.
