Results for "Kaminsky, Ilya"

Finalist for the National Book Award • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetr... Read More about Deaf Republic: Poems

A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan   Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award for Poetry in Translation  “Reading these words now is enough to make one’s breath catch. [Ukraine’s western partners] do not see the... Read More about How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry offers a selection of the finest international poetry from the 20th century in the best English translations available.  Providing in many cases the first and only English language tran... Read More about The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry

One of Moldova's most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Păun's style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic. Canting Arms, the first collection to bring Emilian Galaicu-Păun's work to Anglophone readers, is comprised of a career-spanning selection of his... Read More about Canting Arms: Poems

Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. "Our anthology begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing/... Read More about In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine

"A poet of genius."--Vladimir Nabokov Via what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call "readings"--not translations--of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with... Read More about Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva [With CD (Audio)]