Gogol in Rome

Katia Kapovich is a bilingual poet writing in English and Russian. She is the author of five collections of Russian verse and of a book of English language poetry, Gogol in Rome (Salt, 2004), shortlisted for the Jerwood Alderburgh Prize 2005 in England. Her English poems have also appeared in the London Review of Books, The New Republic, The Independent, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, The Antioch Review, Jacket, and numerous other periodicals. She received the 2001 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress. In 2007 she will be Poet-in-Residence at Amherst College. Kapovich lives in Cambridge, MA, where she co-edits Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics.

These are poems of grave social and psychic straits: a troubled childhood, a stay in a mental hospital, and all the lacerations within and between selves engendered in exile.

• In the BathhouseGogol in RomeThe Birth of AnarchyModus OperandiA Dance without MusicMoscow – Berlin A Fly on the FaucetA WaltzA Farewell to Russian SymbolismDouble VisionAt the Kishinev School for Deaf and Mute ChildrenPragueThey Called Them “Blue”A Komsomol ActSelf-Portrait in PajamasGolden FleeceA Paper Plane to NowhereA WolfAnna-Maria and the OthersApartment 75The Night before the Afghan War Something to OpposeA Haircut A DeathOrpheus in the SubwayRainbowBlacklisted TitlesHurdlesAt the Young Pioneer CampVeronica’s Secret LifeSilhouetteForbidden FelliniPrivacyA ShaveThe Smell of SaltDog-EndsA BeggarGogol in JerusalemThe Tank FarmDiogenesTanyaA Landscape with Laundering WomenChristmas 2001The Green One over ThereBlack and White The Three of UsThe RattlePainting a RoomStanzas to the StairwellTwelve SheepRendezvous on SandTotaledThings in the MorningMy Sense of TimeCamping in Buzzards BayThe Law of PerspectiveThe Tale of Clear PondThe DigA Gentle Hibernation of LoversMatchmakingGogol in New YorkThe RatThe Summer GardensHemophiliaAxis MundiGeneration K