Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English
but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled 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 are, have been, or will be.