POET
Ilya Kaminsky
BIOGRAPHY
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former USSR, and came to the US in 1993, when his family received asylum from the American government. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) and currently teaches poetry and comparative literature at San Diego State University.
POEMS
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.
from Deaf Republic: 12. Sonya Speaks Slowly, As If Unaffected
from Deaf Republic: 13. For My Brother, Tony
from Deaf Republic: 2. 9AM Bombardment
from Deaf Republic: 7. Sonya Considers Happiness
from Deaf Republic: 5. And They Drag The Living Body In The Sunlit Piazza
AUDIO
The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Rhapsodies and Rude Epics
The editors of the magazine discuss Ilya Kaminsky's “Deaf Republic”, Inger Christensen's musical poetry, and Hanoch Levin's “Lives of the Dead.”
