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Supreme Being
Martha Kapos
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Description for Supreme Being
paperback. Captures a range of perceptions and emotion. This title is both a huge hymn of praise for 'life', for ordinary experiencing, and at the same time faces movingly and directly the incomprehensibility of loss - the loss of someone else, deeply known and loved. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 6. Weight in Grams: 106.
Following her prize-winning first collection, Martha Kapos again captures an extraordinary range of perceptions and emotion. Her style is highly original, a sort of internal Cubism, conveying a feeling-state by observing it precisely through many sharply nuanced images and from many angles. She creates a very distinctive, unique atmosphere - graver here than in her previous collection. "Supreme Being" is both a huge hymn of praise for 'life', for ordinary experiencing, and at the same time faces very movingly and directly the incomprehensibility of loss - the loss of someone else, deeply known and loved, and the awareness, too, of ... Read more
Following her prize-winning first collection, Martha Kapos again captures an extraordinary range of perceptions and emotion. Her style is highly original, a sort of internal Cubism, conveying a feeling-state by observing it precisely through many sharply nuanced images and from many angles. She creates a very distinctive, unique atmosphere - graver here than in her previous collection. "Supreme Being" is both a huge hymn of praise for 'life', for ordinary experiencing, and at the same time faces very movingly and directly the incomprehensibility of loss - the loss of someone else, deeply known and loved, and the awareness, too, of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904634621
SKU
V9781904634621
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Ref
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About Martha Kapos
MARTHA KAPOS is an American living in London. Until 2001 she taught in the Art History Department of the Chelsea College of Art. My Nights in Cupid's Palace received a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and won the Jerwood/Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection. She is Assistant Poetry Editor of Poetry London.
Reviews for Supreme Being
From Reviews of My Nights in Cupid's Palace:Almost every poem here makes another myth, a new cosmologyA...exerts an unsettling, enlivening, revelatory effect. Her poems seek revelation, they are the act of seeking it; they are, as Lowell said poems should be - the event, not the record of an event. - David ConstantineHere is a richly imaginative new voiceA...An ... Read more