Kapka Kassabova is a young, Bulgarian $emigr$e 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 spaces between memory and being, exploration and doubt, and desire and loss. Her novel, Reconnaissance (1999), won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.
Kapka Kassabova is a young, Bulgarian $emigr$e poet, now living in New Zealand, who writes in English but with a European imagination. These poems in ...
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well traveled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of 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 speaking here--from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ--are the voices of the heart-sick, the culturally jet-lagged, people from photographs, the "tenants" of lives, cities and destinies. This is what we all...
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well traveled poems speak from different p...
One of the most celebrated books of the year: a vivid journey through the haunted borderlands that once made up the easternmost stretch of the old Iron Curtain and today mark the outer reaches of Europe
One of the most celebrated books of the year: a vivid journey through the haunted borderlands that once made up the easternmost stretch of the old Iro...
Kapka Kassabova reist ins alte Thrakien, dorthin, wo Bulgarien, Griechenland und die Türkei aufeinandertreffen - und entdeckt verborgene Welten und faszinierende Menschen
Kapka Kassabova reist ins alte Thrakien, dorthin, wo Bulgarien, Griechenland und die Türkei aufeinandertreffen - und entdeckt verborgene Welten und f...
