Dancing in Odessa

Literature & Fiction

Ilya Kaminsky

Poetry

Faber&Faber

Read America(s) is a poetry anthology that responds to the idea of America(s). It offers poetry not just from the United States of America, not just from North and South America, but from any manifestation of America(s); from Pangaea to apocalypse, from and occupying every negotiated borderland in between. This anthology inspires one to ask: what is/are America(s)? What are its boundaries? Where is it? Is it real? What language does it speak? This collection expresses the America(s) of the mind, of physical space, of the body and bodies in and around it. LHP offers a collection of poets who are re-writing borders--borders of inclusion and exclusion, safety and danger, highly politicized existence, physical and emotional resources. Read America(s) is myriad voices capturing the triumph--and the inadequacies--of language to navigate and grapple with the complexities of America(s).

Read America(s): An Anthology

Sherwin Bitsui

Jericho Brown

Natalie Díaz

Camille Dungy

Tarfia Faizullah

Bob Hicok

Thomas Lux

Adrian Matejka

Javier Sicilia

Locked Horn Press

In this revised and expanded version of an essay that originally served as an introduction to Ex Voto: Poems of Adélia Prado (Tupelo Press, 2013), renowned poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky examines the embodied religious devotion of one of Brazil's greatest poets, asking what it means to be a mystic in our time. The chapbook also includes an uncollected Prado translation by Ellen Doré Watson.

It's the Soul That's Erotic: An Essay on Adélia Prado

History & Criticism

Orison Books

Arc Publications

Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky is a recent Russian immigrant and rising poetic star. Despite the fact that he is a non-native speaker, Kaminksy's sense of rhythm and lyic surpasses that of most contemporary poets in the English language. This magical, musical book of poems draws readers into its unforgettable heart, and Carolyn Forché wrties simply "I'm in awe of his gifts."

Tupelo Press

The Spring/Summer 2007 issue of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture is devoted to prayer and prayer communities. Includes original art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from S. Yizhar, Ilya Kaminsky, Riv-Ellen Prell, Daniel Y. Harris, Jaime Perlmuth and others, as well as the first-ever study and roundtable on the 'independent minyan movement' featuring minyan leaders Elie Kaunfer, Ben Dreyfus, Beth Tritter, Yehuda Kurtzer, and others.

Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture: Spring/Summer 2007

Rami Shapiro

S. Yizhar

Jay Michaelson

Riv-Ellen Prell

Zeek Media Inc.

There has been no anthology in English dedicated to the poetics of the great generation of Russian modernists. For a group of poets so widely admired, relatively little seems known about their philosophy of poetry and their poetic influences, and although there is tremendous aesthetic diversity in this group, they have more in common than many readers assume. Russian poetry was a small world, made even smaller by the arrests, disappearances, pogroms, famines, assassinations, and political conflagration of the revolutionary era, and literary differences were often overcome by a mutual sense of historic cataclysm.
 This anthology's structure is like textile, with many common threads intertwining, doubling back, sometimes unraveling--creating a matrix of poetic conversation: Mayakovsky on Khlebnikov, Pasternak on Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva on Pasternak, Brodsky on Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova on Mandelstam. Shared themes range from expected (the word) to serendipitous (the ocean). Above all these poets are obsessed with proximity--to God, to nature and place, to poetic predecessors, to language (their own and others), and always, forever, to the inexpressible.
 Thanks to the Antonia and Vladimer Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund for support of this book, in honor of artist Elena Karina Canavier.
 Featured writers: Anna Akhmatova, Andrei Bely, Joseph Brodsky, Daniil Kharms, Velimir Khlebnikov, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva
 With versions and translations by: Katya Apekina, Walter Arndt, Clarence Brown, Christopher Colbath, Herbert Eagle, Katie Farris, Jane Gray Harris, Max Hayward, G. M. Hyde, Ilya Kaminsky, Jane Kenyon, Roger and Angela Keys, George L. Kline, Stanley Kunitz, Anna Lawton, Constance Link, Angela Livingstone, Robert Lowell, W. S. Merwin, Valzhyna Mort, Eugene Ostashevsky, George Reavey, Judson Rosengrant, Barry Rubin, Paul Schmidt, Janet Tucker, Jean Valentine, Daniel Weissbort, Margaret Wettlin, Christian Wiman, Matvei Yankelevich

Gossip & Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems & Prose

Katie Farris

Valzhyna Mort

„Wir lebten glücklich während des Krieges", schreibt prophetisch der Ukrainer Ilya Kaminsky in seiner weltweit gefeierten Parabel. Als ein tauber Junge, der einem Puppenspiel zusieht, von Soldaten erschossen wird, leisten die Bewohner der okkupierten Stadt Vasenka Widerstand: Sie stellen sich taub und koordinieren ihren Protest in der Gebärdensprache. Unter den Oppositionellen sind auch Alfonso und Sonya, die ein Kind erwarten. Vasenka ist ein Kriegsschauplatz, aber auch ein Ort, an dem geliebt wird, wo Menschen einander Zeichen der Solidarität geben. Kaminskys Buch konfrontiert uns mit Kriegsbildern von unheimlicher Kraft: Es ist zugleich Liebesgeschichte, eine Elegie und ein dringendes Plädoyer gegen das Schweigen.

Republik der Taubheit

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