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Paper Bridge (Paperback)
Vasyl Makhno; Translated by Olena Jennings; Introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019 Deaf Republic opens in a time of
political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we
are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come
to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now.
This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play,
its powerful narrative provoked by a tragic opening scene: when
soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, the gunshot becomes
the last thing the citizens hear - in that moment, all have gone
deaf. Inside this silence, their dissent becomes coordinated by
sign language. The story then follows the private lives of
townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple,
Alfonso and Sonya, expecting their child; the daring Momma Galya,
instigating the insurgency from her puppet theatre; and Galya's
puppeteers, covertly teaching signs by day and by night heroically
luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At
once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Deaf Republic
confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence
in the face of them.
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Odesa (Hardcover)
Yelena Yemchuk; Ilya Kaminsky; Lyrics by Ilya Kaminsky
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'Time is different in Odesa. It's a city outside of time'. As a
child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the
reputation of Odesa as a free place during Soviet times. The city
seemed full of contradictions - "acceptance but also danger. A
place of jokes and characters, populated by outlaws and
intellectuals." She first visited Odesa in 2003 and returned in
2015 to begin to photograph the city and its inhabitants over a
period of four years. In 1981, when Yemchuk was eleven years old,
her family immigrated to the United States from their home in Kyiv,
Ukraine. They could tell no-one out of their family of their plans
to leave and going beyond the 'Iron Curtain' at the time meant they
could never return to their home country. Ten years later, when
Ukraine announced its independence, the artist was able to return
to her home country to visit
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
In "The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry", introduced and
edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris, poetic visions from the
20th century will be reinforced and in many ways revised. Alongside
renowned masters, there will be many new discoveries -
internationally celebrated poets who have rarely, if ever, been
translated into English. In conjunction with the organization Words
Without Borders - an online haven for international literature and
an ally to writers all over the world-Ecco presents a paperback
anthology that will surely serve as a canonical touchstone in the
field of poetics, bringing voices from afar to readers everywhere.
As aptly put in Words Without Borders' mission statement, this
collection also serves as part of 'the ultimate aim to introduce
exciting international writing to the general and literary public -
travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and a new generation of
eclectic readers - by presenting international literature not as a
static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the
world'.
A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy
injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan  Since
the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, the Ukrainian poet Serhiy
Zhadan has brought international attention to his country’s
struggle through his unflinching poetry of witness. In this searing
testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, Zhadan
honors the memory of the lost and addresses the living, inviting us
to consider what language can offer to a country threatened with
extinction. Young lovers, marginalized outsiders, and ordinary
citizens pulse with life in a composite portrait of a people newly
unified by extremity. Even in the midst of enemy fire, Zhadan’s
lyrical monuments beat with a subterranean thrum of hope. Â
With a foreword by the poet Ilya Kaminsky, this selection of
Zhadan’s poetry, forged entirely in wartime, is an homage to the
Ukrainian people, a forceful reckoning with the violence of the
past and present, and an act of artistic imagination that breaks
with trauma and charts a new future for Ukraine.
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine
Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America's
leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with
spirituality and the craft of writing. Bringing together poets who
are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Native American,
Wiccan, agnostic, and otherwise, this book offers frank and
thoughtful consideration of themes too often polarized and
politicized in our society. Participants include Li-Young Lee, Jane
Hirshfield, Carolyn Forche, Gerald Stern, Christian Wiman, Joy
Harjo, and Gregory Orr, and others, all wrestling with difficult
questions of human existence and the sources of art.
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Canting Arms - Poems (Paperback)
Emilian Galaicu-Păun; Translated by Adam J Sorkin; Introduction by Ilya Kaminsky
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R407
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Canting Arms (the heraldic term refers to coats of arms that are
visual puns) is the fitting title for Galaicu-Păun’s selected
poems. His style is rich with references at once both playful and
thematically serious, ironic, at times comic, and always bristling
with verbal energy and unexpected turns in strong, limber lines..
This collection spans his earlier poems with scriptural and erotic
references to later, more complex political, historical,
psychologically astute works, sardonic, visionary, as well as
surprising.
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Brass Neck (Paperback)
Ilya Kaminsky; Edited by Linda Ashok; Victoria Naa Takia Nunoo
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Funny and diabolical, these short, linked, prose poems describe a
girl's need to escape from a world of lust and lawnmowers into a
dream world. From child to adult, the poet imagines her life as a
new Houdini.
"Full of nouveau folklore, quirky unrequited narratives, and
mock dream analysis, Nin Andrews' work is always surprising, sharp,
and wild."-Denise Duhamel
"Pepper Facts
"It's true what they say. A certain kind of spice can get under
a woman's skin. Once ingested, she will taste it in the air and on
her sheets; she might feel as if she were living in a Mexican
restaurant. For a while a woman might think it's the man she's
sleeping with, that he's gotten inside her clothes and every cell
she is. Chilies are potent, no doubt about it; some contain
antibiotic properties, inspiring a fire to rise in the blood,
replicating the sensation and biochemistry of romance. A woman will
lie awake, tossing and stirring, unable to sleep. She will eat bowl
after bowl of ice cream beneath a full moon. But in the end, she
will discover it's nothing a little baking soda in her wash and
toothpaste can't cure. And what a relief she will feel then! She
might howl at the stars. Or dance nude in a snow storm, her arms
flung wide to the wind and singing cold, happy at last to be
listening to her own thoughts that promise her, never again. Never
again.
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Jewish Studies. If there is a
country named Celania--as Julia Kristeva once proposed--its holy
texts are filled with doubt, and they overcome this doubt almost
successfully, with words of wrenching, uncompromised beauty.... The
book in your hands is not intended to become one of those heavy
scholarly tomes that serve as a "proof" of one's position in the
literary/academic hierarchy. Rather, this is a collection of
various works, directed at, or inspired by, the words of Paul
Celan. What we wanted to make was a living anthology, in which
authors observe the poet's work, read it deeply, penetrate and
discuss it, but also play with it, remake it, and attempt to fit it
into their own worldviews. A great poet is not someone who speaks
in stadiums to a thousand listeners. A great poet is a very private
person. In his privacy this poet creates a language in which he is
able to speak, privately, to many people at the same time.
Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to
the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments,
nonstop propaganda flows from TV, and neighbors begin to hate their
neighbors. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first
century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere. These brief lyric
poems speak about the memory of historical trauma and witness stark
individual voices that pierce the wall of complacency. What is the
music of such times? What is its metaphysics? This collection gives
us an unflinching, memorable response.
Winner of the 2002 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, this magical book
of poems written by a Russian immigrant who came to America only a
few years ago without knowing a single word of English, draws
readers in ineluctably. Although a recent arrival, Kaminsky's ear
for the music in English is better than most poets born here. As
readers quickly realize upon opening the book, Kaminsky's poetry
isn't just beautiful-it is unforgettable.
An undisputed rising poetic star, Ilya Kaminsky was born in
Odessa, former Soviet Union. He has already received the Ruth Lilly
fellowship from "Poetry "magazine and was the youngest person
appointed Writer in Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy. Kaminsky,
who is also almost totally deaf, will finish his law degree at the
University of California in 2004.
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