Ilya Kaminsky
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Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union and is now an American citizen. He is the author of a previous poetry collection, Dancing in Odessa, and coeditor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. He has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Guggenheim toon meer Fellowship, and was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. toon minder
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- Kaminsky, Ilya
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- 1977-04-18
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- male
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- USA
USSR (birth) - Geboorteplaats
- Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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- Georgetown University (BA) (political science)
University of California, Hastings College of the Law (JD) - Beroepen
- professor
- Organisaties
- Ivan Allen College of the Liberal Arts
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Addison M. Metcalf Award in Literature (2005)
Whiting Writers' Award (2005)
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"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"
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'You must speak not only of great devastation --
we heard that not from a philosopher
but from our neighbor, Alfonso --
his eyes closed, he climbed other people's porches and recited
to his child our National Anthem:
You must speak not only of great devastation --
when his child cried he
made her a newspaper hat and squeezed his silence
like two pleats of an accordion:
We must speak not only of great devastation --
and he played that accordion out of tune in a country
where the only musical instrument is the door.'
--IK
One of the most powerful collections I've read recently and 'Eulogy' is an example of how bleakness and a determination to hold onto hope both fit in the palm of the same hand. Kaminsky has written a modern parable that shows by the end, the work before us - fighting back but remembering that joy exists, the reason for fighting back.… (meer)