The Likeness

di Martha Kapos (Autore)

Enitharmon Press, 2014

These new poems by Martha Kapos represent an act of reclamation or capture: an attempt to retrieve someone whose loss has been experienced through illness and finally death. Taking as an epigraph a line from Richard Wilbur ' - a thing is most itself when likened' Kapos discovers various viewpoints from which to try to see the thing 'being most itself'. Most often the viewpoints are visual ones - making use of the phenomenon of perspective with its effects of hiddenness, distance or diminution. In every case metaphor is the guiding principle in these poems, which address how a figure is brought back to life through a process whose essence is poetic. The Likeness is a sustained elegy, an unfolding study in psychology and visual observation, and an example of the animating power of metaphor to reshape loss into presence.

• Autore: Martha Kapos
• Editore: Enitharmon Press
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 56 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 135 mm
• EAN: 9781907587399

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