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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.
List 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
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.
Summary
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, Russian draftees, Soviet boy scouts, political convicts, all at home in Dostoyevskian worlds.
