Described as 'a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a
haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw
on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly realised
domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance,
humour and torment, and a distinctive, transcendent music. 'With
his magical style in English, Kaminsky's poems in Dancing in Odessa
seem like a literary counterpart to Chagall in which laws of
gravity have been suspended and colors reassigned, but only to make
everyday reality that much more indelible. His imagination is so
transformative that we respond with equal measures of grief and
exhilaration.' The American Academy of Arts and Letters 'Dancing in
Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky tops the list because he is one of those
rarest of finds in this or any century, a writer who establishes
what poetry can be.' The New York Times
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