https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/translations daily 0.75 2019-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550944606048-MY4BA2P2JXVKFCPTAKLI/darkcover.319153805_std.jpg Translations - Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva Alice James Books, 2012 "this Dark Elderberry Branch is magic ." — W.S. Merwin “This is a gorgeous, gorgeous work by two brilliant poets. It evokes the depth, range and truest voice of this Russian master.” — New York Times (Click on cover for more information) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550944606048-MY4BA2P2JXVKFCPTAKLI/darkcover.319153805_std.jpg Translations - Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva Alice James Books, 2012 "this Dark Elderberry Branch is magic ." — W.S. Merwin “This is a gorgeous, gorgeous work by two brilliant poets. It evokes the depth, range and truest voice of this Russian master.” — New York Times (Click on cover for more information) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550944542123-0JPLMUL33EXW5E4YYSBE/lamentable+city.jpg Translations - This Lamentable City by Polina Barskova Tupelo Press, 2010 “Words flicker — strange, elegant — a Russian evanescence. Heat lightning pulses between her lines.” -Dana Jennings, The New York Times (Click on cover for more information) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551208396776-7TH7ZGW6MXII6E25LDSJ/PRAG_FRONT.jpg Translations - If I Were Born in Prague: Poems of Guy Jean Argos Press, 2011 “IF I WERE BORN IN PRAGUE re-interprets 17th century tavern songs and legends from the cultural heritage of Acadia, a culture destroyed when the British violently took over the region [into] poetry that also tips its hat to the French masters Rimbaud and Michaux.” — Ping Pong: A Literary Journal of Henry Miller Library https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/books-1 daily 0.75 2019-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1548686092432-36N86PKIZPW4B35MI51U/deaf+republic+w+border.jpg Books - Deaf Republic Graywold Press, 2019 “Re-envisioning disability as power and silence as singing, Kaminsky has created a searing allegory precisely tuned to our times, a stark appeal to our collective conscience.” — NPR.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1548686092432-36N86PKIZPW4B35MI51U/deaf+republic+w+border.jpg Books - Deaf Republic Graywold Press, 2019 “Re-envisioning disability as power and silence as singing, Kaminsky has created a searing allegory precisely tuned to our times, a stark appeal to our collective conscience.” — NPR.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1548686467877-CWS4P1DNTROP2XIWZOV3/dancing+in+odessa.jpg Books - Dancing in Odessa Tupelo Press, 2004 "…a remarkable debut, one that affords a rare and exhilarating pleasure: the sense of being at the start of something marvelous." — Boston Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1548677176417-4G06284AUYTST8G3LV4I/Musica7-1.346172132_std.jpg Books - Musica Humana Chapiteau Press, 2002 “What a glory Musica Humana is, all the depths and outer reaches of a human heart sung and spoken into visible existence. It is a book I wish I'd written, full of weeping and laughing and clapping and howling. It reaches far back into collective human imagination and charges our present moment with a great sense of destiny. I will read it again and again." — Li-Young Lee https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/international-editions daily 0.75 2019-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1549555466560-UUZBU0X9ASF5GAVYMX2N/portada-odesa-espac3b1a.319160227_std.jpg International Editions - Bailando en Odessa Libros del Aire, 2013 A bilingual edition of new poems and previously published poems. Here is a review. And, here is another review. And here is a Spanish translation of a new long poem, “Sonya's Fairytale”, published in Las Malas Juntas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1549555466560-UUZBU0X9ASF5GAVYMX2N/portada-odesa-espac3b1a.319160227_std.jpg International Editions - Bailando en Odessa Libros del Aire, 2013 A bilingual edition of new poems and previously published poems. Here is a review. And, here is another review. And here is a Spanish translation of a new long poem, “Sonya's Fairytale”, published in Las Malas Juntas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1549555666142-A2WX4DXVGJ5OQ7LX0SVX/dovenrepublik.jpg International Editions - Dovenrepubliek Azul Press, 2011 Dutch translation. Called by Breyten Breytenbach "the great Odessa poet." Depapen en Man discusses the Dutch translation here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1549555805620-AKSB8TCK21LX738HAW5X/Kaminsky_cover_mini.jpg International Editions - Музыка народов ветра Ailuros Publishing, 2012 Selected poems in Russian. The book made to Stanislav Lvovsky's most important books of the year 2012 list. "Переводы очень хороши," this Russian critic wrote in Colt, and in Poetry News Weekly, "Книга необыкновенно хороша". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1549556032769-FLRVT6888LF6PWOXII5H/1000721589.jpg International Editions - Бродячие музыканты Yunost Publishers, 2007 Translation of selected poems in Russian language. Some poems from this book are also available here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1549556203757-YDLNQ52OP6MPR4X0U2HR/Couverts.173134652_std.jpg International Editions - On Danse à Odessa Éditions d'art Le Sabord, 2010 French translation of Dancing in Odessa. The publication Nuit Blanche compared this work to Chagall, saying: "Chagall en poésie : Les Éditions d’art Le Sabord rendent accessible au public francophone la poésie d’Ilya Kaminsky avec la parution d’On danse à Odessa, publié initialement en anglais. On a rapproché le style de cet auteur maintes fois primé à l’œuvre de Chagall." If you read in French, you can see a some poems by clicking on this link. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1549556412594-QA71ABBTKLDW7IYER0RE/Dansand_in_Odessa2.319171418_std.jpg International Editions - Dansând în Odessa Editura Vinea, 2007 Dancing in Odessa was translated into Romanian and published in Bucharest. The book was featured at the Bucharest International Book Fair. Romanian poet Radu Vancu wrote: "Ilya Kaminsky fiind si el, cum am scris deja in diverse contexte, unul dintre americanii mei preferati si unul dintre cei mai influenti poeti tineri din State (s-a vorbit prea putin in Romania despre Dansand in Odessa, volumul aparut in la Vinea in traducerea excelenta a lui Chris Tanasescu)." If you know Romanian you can read some poems by clicking on this link. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551208652836-GX1XDZJKJ8093L75F1D8/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BA%CC%81%D0%B8-%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D0%9E%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0.jpeg International Editions - Танцувајќи во Одеcа Blesok Publishers Selected Poems of Ilya Kaminsky, translated into Macedonian by Igor Isakovskii Here’s some of the poems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551208895352-GE7DVUYSA1JEIV6IC598/UK+edition+DiO.jpg International Editions - Dancing in Odessa (UK) Arc Publications UK edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551209077301-RW4QS1PG9J39HXIO5ZUY/turkish+edition.jpg International Editions - Odessa'da Dans Artshop Press, 2014 Translations of Ilya Kaminsky's 'Dancing in Odessa' into Turkish, by Elif Sezen, published by Artshop Press, 2014, Istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551209307394-PV6P3IZGAN0BZUZM5JYM/DANSA%C3%90-I%CC%81-ODESSA-Ka%CC%81pa-500x675.jpg International Editions - Dansað í Ódessa Dimma Publishers Translations of Ilya Kaminsky's Dancing in Odessa into Icelandic, by Sigurður Pálsson and Sölvi Björn Sigurðsson. Review Translation of a poem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551209716280-T3KU7C1F3ILSZDPWZT61/Odesa-1.jpg International Editions - Bailando en Odesa Valparaiso Editions Translated by G.A. Chaves Kaminsky's Essay on Paul Celan, in Spanish Kaminsky's essay on Marina Tsvetaeva, in Spanish Poem, Natalia, in Spanish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551209973271-SYMA6YF9VEVVAFESSYAS/china+edition.jpg International Editions - 舞在敖德萨 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House Dancing in Odessa: Poems and Essays of Ilya Kaminsky, translated into Chinese by Ming Di 200 pages ISBN: 978-7-5321-4957-5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551210134500-N9POZFZTZX403Y91PCXO/BailandoOdesa-cover_catalog.jpg International Editions - Bailando en Odesa (USA Edition) Tupelo Press Mariela Griffon, translator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551211192796-PTV1A1A6AJSTVX295UPT/ON+DANSE+A%CC%80+ODESSA+trad.+par+Catherine+Selosse%2C+2014+copy.jpg International Editions - On danse à Odessa French translation by Catherine Selosse. https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/anthologies daily 0.75 2019-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550939515827-FN42Z2X8VV6L4WGIM5HP/ecco+anthology.jpg Anthologies - Ecco Anthology of International Poetry Ecco, 2010 "This brilliantly assembled gathering of world voices reads as a symphony of utterance beginning to end, an international conversation of the highest order, regarding the questions and concerns of humankind, beyond borders and all other such barriers, real or imagined. Abundant thanks especially to the editors and translators of this magnificent work." — Carolyn Forché (Click cover for more information) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550939515827-FN42Z2X8VV6L4WGIM5HP/ecco+anthology.jpg Anthologies - Ecco Anthology of International Poetry Ecco, 2010 "This brilliantly assembled gathering of world voices reads as a symphony of utterance beginning to end, an international conversation of the highest order, regarding the questions and concerns of humankind, beyond borders and all other such barriers, real or imagined. Abundant thanks especially to the editors and translators of this magnificent work." — Carolyn Forché (Click cover for more information) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550944185628-8WZ7JDAT3J74ELDFIZ0Z/shape.jpeg Anthologies - In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide McSweeney’s, 2017 “This anthology helps entice poetry skeptics and is designed to raise, heighten and deepen the questions we may have. It has become eloquent example of the why-how-what of poetry.” — PBS “I can’t remember when I have read through an anthology with such interest, anticipating the pleasure of each poem, I had to stop again and again to ponder the poem as if staring at the after image of a blaze of light.” — Zyzzyva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550940213230-LDE1PTHFW6Z89K2HEP4Q/gossip.jpeg Anthologies - Gossip & Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems & Prose Tupelo Press, 2014 “As a whole, “Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose” gives us an inside look at what it means to be a poet in a society undergoing cataclysmic upheaval and change. In these pages we find unassailable courage coupled with the dizzying beauty.” — Sonja James, The Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550940205750-UCL1UOF909USRHXWDEI6/god+house.jpg Anthologies - A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith Tupelo Press, 2012 “Whitman himself probably would have been awestruck by 19 prominent poets interviewed in God in the House. Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler gathered a diversity of visionaries that make nearly everyone feel welcome, from atheist to orthodox. In these interview-essays [by] authors such as Grace Paley…faith and poetry are not inimical, but parallel ways of entering into the great mystery of being. The anthology gives courage to seekers for whom religion is just the beginning” – Philip Meters, Cleveland Plain Dealer (Click cover for more information) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550940207629-XJLXQ2OP3T5WPPO5LZHO/celan.png Anthologies - Homage to Paul Celan Marick Press, 2012 “How impressed and grateful I feel about this so varied anthology. Homage to Paul Celan is great gift for Celan lovers and others to come.” — John Felstiner, Stanford University https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/about daily 0.75 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1548675249369-2QU5Y1TYR64VZGKFW855/kaminskyphoto2.jpeg About https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/books daily 0.75 2023-03-01 https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/essays daily 0.75 2020-05-09 https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/poems daily 0.75 2020-10-25 https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/deaf-republic daily 1.0 2023-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1548683397132-PCDSU93AMCX33POB3UTN/deaf+republic+w+border.jpg Deaf Republic https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/poets-in-the-world daily 0.75 2019-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551261474608-AKMAJ2MXJPGKIT20NI5X/wordswoborders.png Poets in the World - Words Without Borders Words Without Borders is an online journal dedicated to international literature, where Ilya worked for many years. Here is a link to the Poetry Issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551210796818-6NT3SL57F1UJAKA02YXP/poets+in+world+1.jpg Poets in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551210796537-O83FUVUBYZGCDRM1SKLP/poets+in+world+2.jpg Poets in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551210797323-AHRHN89FLSXFELI03GWX/poets+in+world+3.jpg Poets in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551210798293-NUTOPO5JL8CGCYL7GUW3/poets+in+world+4.jpg Poets in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551210797594-ZRP2A9RGP8EDYA197WDB/poets+in+world+5.jpg Poets in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551210797843-MDGPQB4VPFL4436IR73T/poets+in+world+6.jpg Poets in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551210798096-QX7DRECSSHQ9K5D2WEZE/poets+in+world+7.jpg Poets in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551262558127-ZHOZCFCYG4GH7J3EFEK2/PI+2021.jpg Poets in the World - Poetry International Poetry International is one of the oldest literary journals in the world solely dedicated to poetry and poetics from around the globe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551264475668-M24MIJUHH7C7FVXMA6NK/poets+for+peace.png Poets in the World - Poets For Peace In late 1990s, Ilya co-founded Poets For Peace, an organizations that raised funds for relief organizations such as Survivors International. Click on the link before for more information. Here is a link to the Against Certainty anthology that included work of poets active in Poets For Peace events at that time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551260194750-H8NV74N3UUO0K1S7XE0F/intlpoets.png Poets in the World - International Poets in Conversation International Poets in Conversation is a podcast series at Poetry Foundation that was edited by Ilya Kaminsky. You can find various international poets speaking about their poetics at the link below. https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/this-lamentable-city daily 0.75 2019-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551027110772-YY17XT7A9U7VHSSEVWI5/lamentable+city.jpg This Lamentable City https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/ecco-anthology daily 0.75 2019-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550499887924-8JGQUDWME7CGL0VL18G7/ecco_cover.346172539_std.png Ecco Anthology of International Poetry https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/a-god-in-the-house daily 0.75 2019-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550943248885-C1B3Y7RB5RRAXY17M6C2/god+house.jpg A God in the House https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/dark-elderberry-branch daily 0.75 2020-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1551026610195-39BEI7C9NOUWYB0U6EC8/darkcover.319153805_std.jpg Dark Elderberry Branch https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/dancing-in-odessa daily 0.75 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550479571883-JQG8VIEAMDJ0OGDHDD8L/dancing+in+odessa.jpg Dancing in Odessa https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/musica-humana daily 0.75 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4edfaeaf20960824d5280e/1550499149336-9UQOZTEGOUBCG8T5SMAJ/Musica7-1.346172132_std.jpg Musica Humana https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/press daily 0.75 2019-03-10