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Go Back to Poetry Section Dismemberment - Reviews & Extracts 
Kapka Kassabova is a poet who, in her volume Dismemberment, does not spare the reader…. What lurks behind this collection is the belief that no matter how hard we try, we will be torn asunder. This is what gives these poems their intransigent terror. In the first section, Sculpting, fourteen separate poems are very skilfully linked. They chart the failure and limitations of love/desire in a set relationship….The relentless way each poem in Dismemberment adheres to that initial disclosure makes this book both unsettling and disturbing. Kassabova offers no relief from that terrible breach, that existential dislocation she perceives at the heart of desire. But Dismemberment is unforgettable for its intensity, for its presentation of unsalvageable moments of bleakness, and for its inventive and powerful metaphors. - Judith Beveridge, HEAT (Australia) 'Whereas Kapka Kassabova's first collection of poetry All roads lead to the sea dealt with the nature of exile in a largely literal geographic sense, Dismemberment is a far less restricted exploration of similar terrain - this time focusing on exile as a feature of the human condition….Octavio Paz was once described as 'a poet in love with silence who can't stop talking.' Judging by this collection, the same could be said of Kassabova.' - Bede Scott, NZ Sunday Star Times And they were both right There is so much violence yet to be done. He falls into her body blind because desire makes him blind deaf and limbless for the same reason. But what is love? He will be Love will be made and unmade - naturally, What if love is made and nothing else - And they were both right. The Door
One day you'll see: But not yet. Now Underneath on tip-toe One day you'll doubt your movements, 
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