Ilya Kaminsky Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ilya Kaminsky

A friend who translated poems by Yusef Komunyakaa, @jorie_graham, Muriel Rukeyser, Eleanor Wilner while sitting for many long hours in Kyev bomb-shelter as city was shelled, has escaped now. She is safe in Poland. Small moments of calm.

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"...gulls reluctant to lift heavenwards congregate like mourners in salt- crusted kelp" --Major Jackson, from his beautiful elegy for Walcott, in the new book, "The Absurd Man"

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Loving @NovicSara's new novel, True Biz -- what a book! Delicate, nuanced, playful & at the same time so sweeping. A literary novel that's a page turner with a vision! Sara Novic is a talent to behold. Not just *the* novelist of Deaf culture, but of human nature writ large.

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@tamsinese Among those writing in English: Raymond Antrobus, Meg Day, John Lee Clark, Sara Novic. Sarah Katz’s debut, Country of Glass, that is wonderful. If you are just starting out, consider checking: https://t.co/AJbUT5z67T You will also find other resources via Zoeglossia online

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RT @CopperCanyonPrs: @ClevelandMag spotlights books considered to be part of this year's canon, including OBIT by VICTORIA CHANG (@VChangPo…

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“ we’re captive birds dear brother that’s it that’s all black sun of melancholy shines like a shrapnel hole” —so grateful to @heathergreenish for kind review of “The Country Where Everyone’s Name Is Fear” which @katiefar and I had good luck to co-edit: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/reviews/157838/the-country-where-everyone39s-name-is-fear-selected-poems

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My favorite Tolstoy short story is How Much Land Does a Man Need. It’s terrific & very relevant. But then, the Scottish poet Norman McCaig fits the whole thing in just four lines: “My only country is six feet high and whether I love it or not I'll die for it's independence”

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In the midst of so much tragedy, one is grateful for the good news. Today, it was a balm to learn that Donika Kelly @officialdonika received the Anisfield-Wolf prize - THE RENUNCIATIONS is a moving and memorable book: https://t.co/nTwFqGFTAP

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Translation is the art of failure -Umberto Eco Poetry is what is lost in translation -Frost Poetry is what is found in translation -Octavio Paz Every great age of poetry is the great age of translation -Pound Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee. Thou art translated. -Shakespeare

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What I also like about this is that @kwamedawes sends the reader to V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street. It’s a good place to visit. https://t.co/G3vNwdE9qG