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The Likeness

by Martha Kapos

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Enitharmon Press
  • 13.7 x 21.3 x 0.6 cm

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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, ultimately, 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." 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."

  • Author

    Martha Kapos

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Enitharmon Press

  • Published

    January 2015

  • Weight

    82g

  • Dimensions

    13.7 x 21.3 x 0.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781907587399

  • ISBN-10

    190758739X

  • Eden Code

    4889508

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