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Geography for the Lost
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This book will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry, migration and cultural identity, as well as those drawn to reflective works on history and the human condition.
Second collection by Kapka Kassabova, a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history.
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Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, yet they always explore 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 in Geography for the Lost are diverse, from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ. These are the voices of the heart-sick, the culturally jet-lagged, people from photographs, the "tenants" of lives, cities, and destinies. This collection resonates with what we all are, have been, or will be.
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Praised for its finely pitched lyricism and deep sympathy, this work has been described as a unique literary identity that vividly portrays the turbulence of 20th-century European history and the experience of exile. Clive James highlights Kassabova's musical phrasing and international perspective, while Mark Stran commends its fearless candour and intelligence in addressing modern uncertainty.
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ISBN: 9781852247652
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 April 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 64
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About the Author
Kapka Kassabova is a cross-genre writer with a special interest in deep journeying, exploring human geographies, and the hidden narratives of places, people, and peripheries. She has published two poetry collections with Bloodaxe, Someone else's life (2003) and Geography for the Lost (2007). Born in 1973 in Sofia, Bulgaria, to scientist parents, she studied at the French Lycee in Sofia. Her family emigrated to New Zealand in 1992, where she studied French and Russian Literature at Otago University (BAHon), and English Literature and Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington (MFA). While in New Zealand, she published two poetry collections, All roads lead to the sea and Dismemberment (Auckland University Press), and two novels, Reconnaissance and Love in the Land of Midas (Penguin NZ). In 2005 Kapka moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, and wrote Street Without a Name (Granta, 2008), a coming-of-age story in the twilight years of totalitarian Communism and an unsentimental journey across modern-day Bulgaria. It was shortlisted for the Prix Europeen du Livre and the Stanford-Dolman Travel Book Awards. Her memoir-history, Twelve Minutes of Love (Granta, 2011), blends a tale of obsession and migration with a history of the Argentine tango, and was shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Book Awards. Villa Pacifica (Alma Books 2011), a novel with an Ecuadorian setting, came out at the same time. Border: a journey to the edge of Europe (Granta/Graywolf) came out in 2017. It is a solo journey through the remote triple borderlands of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece where the easternmost stretch of the Iron Curtain ran. Described by the British Academy Prize jury as 'being about the essence of place and the essence of human encounter', its narratives weave into a panoramic study of how borderlines shape human destiny through time. Border won the British Academy's Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year, the Edward Stanford-Dolman Travel Book of the Year, and the inaugural Highlands Book Prize. It was short-listed for the Baillie-Gifford Prize, the Bread and Roses Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Awards (USA), and the Gordon Burn Prize. Kapka Kassabova lives in the Highlands of Scotland. She is a juror for The Neustadt Prize (2019-2020), and was on the judging panel for The International Dublin Book Award (2017). Her next book is To The Lake: a Balkan journey of war and peace (Granta/ Graywolf 2020).
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