Dancing in Odessa - Ilya Kaminsky

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... Zobrazit více