Someone Else's Life

by Kassabova, Kapka

• ISBN13: 9781852246174
• ISBN10: 1852246170
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Kapka Kassabova is a Bulgarian emigre poet, Now living in New Zealand, Who writes in English but with a European imagination. These poems in her third collection explore the emotional and spiritual territory of the traveler and the dispossessed, The

Table of Contents

PLACE
Place	11	(1)
My Life in Two Parts	12	(1)
In the Shadow of the Bridge	13	(1)
Angel's Lament	14	(1)
Immigrant Architectures	15	(2)
Amnesia at Eaglereach	17	(1)
The Pied Piper of Buenos Aires	18	(1)
One Sunday in New Zealand	19	(1)
Watching a man fail to drown himself	20	(1)
Nature morte	21	(1)
The complete circle	22	(2)
Balinese	24	(2)
Indian Story	26	(1)
Berlin-Mitte	27	(1)
Someone else's life	28	(1)
Looking for Lieselotte Stein	29	(1)
Railway dream	30	(2)
The Crescendo	32	(1)
In transit	33	(1)
Refugees	34	(1)
The Pacific seen from above	35	(4)
GATE TO ALL YOUR FAREWELLS
Cicadas	39	(1)
Lemon Tree Witnessing Man Being Built In	40	(2)
Two Nights	42	(2)
Embracing the umbrella	44	(1)
Twelve ways to photograph white lilies	45	(2)
It never entered my mind	47	(1)
How to survive in the desert	48	(1)
The Secret	49	(1)
How we make love	50	(1)
The Hour of Giving Up	51	(1)
The Crossing	52	(1)
The room, the field	53	(1)
Gate to All Your Farewells	54	(3)
DISMEMBERMENT
Calculations	57	(1)
And they were both right	58	(1)
The Sphinx	59	(1)
Poem about Futility	60	(1)
Ciphers	61	(1)
Still life	62	(1)
Sleeper	63	(2)
No one can touch a laughing man	65	(1)
The Door	66	(1)
Dismemberment	67	(1)
The orchestra on the roof of the city	68	(1)
Mirages	69	(1)
Preparation for the big emptiness	70	(1)
Marseille	71	(1)
The whore of memory	72	(1)
Oyster	73	(1)
A city of pierced amphorae	74	(4)
ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SEA: young poems from the end of the world
From The immigrant cycle
Coming to paradise	78	(1)
Security	79	(1)
Razor salesman	80	(1)
My father climbing to the stars	81	(1)
My mother's plants	82	(1)
Song of the stranger	83	(2)
Sick of the ocean	85	(1)
Insularity	86	(1)
All roads lead to the sea	87