Commonplace Podcast

Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky


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Books by Ilya Kaminsky

Poetry Collections:

Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019)

Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004)

Anthologies:

The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (co-editors Susan Harris, Ecco, 2010)

In the Shape of a Human I Am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide (co-editors Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan, McSweeney’s, 2017)

Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose (co-editors Katie Farris and Valzhyna Mort, Tupelo Press, 2014)

A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith, (co-editor Katherine Towler, Tupelo Press, 2012)

Translations/Readings:

Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (with Jean Valentine, Alice James, 2012)

This Lamentable City by Polina Barskova (Tupelo Press, 2010)

If I Were Born in Prague: Poems of Guy Jean (with Katie Farris, Argos Press, 2011)

Other Books and Writers Featured in the Episode

Isaac Babel

Leslie Scalapino

Catullus

Propertius

Anna Akhmatova

Czeslaw Milosz

Tomas Tranströmer

Other Relevant Links

“Searching for a Lost Odessa — and a Deaf Childhood” published in the New York Times, Aug. 9, 2018

Ilya reads “Search Patrols” for the Poetry Foundation

Interview with Ilya in the Adirondack Review

Polish poet Adam Zagajewski talks to American translator Clare Cavanaugh and Ilya Kaminsky about contemporary Polish poetry, for the Poetry Foundation

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