Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo) and Deaf Republic (Graywolf). He was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is the translator and editor of many other books.

Introduction to Part 2: Kharkiv - In a Circle of Silences

July 2022
Ilya Kaminsky

Destruction across Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s invasion Al Panteliat is a poet from Kharkiv—he and I have been in touch for over a decade, exchanging notes, translating poems. Now, one wor...
Introduction to Part 1: Odesa - As the World Watches On

July 2022
Ilya Kaminsky

Steel anti-tank obstacles on the road near Mariupol, Ukraine For the first two months of war, I can’t locate my uncle in Odesa. Uncle Valerii, who is over eighty, and usually very active on so...
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Spring 2019
Ilya Kaminsky

Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2019. 76 pages. This book-length series of poems, Ilya Kaminsky’s second collection, is written as two progressively darkening acts of a play set in the imaginary town of...