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Dancing in Odessa

2014-01-28 Poetry
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Release : 2014-01-28
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in Odessa by : Ilya Kaminsky

Download or read book Dancing in Odessa written by Ilya Kaminsky. This book was released on 2014-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, selected by poet and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Eleanor Wilner who says, "I'm so happy to have a manuscript that I believe in so powerfully, poetry with such a deep music. I love it." One might spend a lifetime reading books by emerging poets without finding the real thing, the writer who (to paraphrase Emily Dickinson) can take the top of your head off. Kaminsky is the real thing. Impossibly young, this Russian immigrant makes the English language sing with the sheer force of his music, a wondrous irony, as Ilya Kaminsky has been deaf since the age of four. In Odessa itself, "A city famous for its drunk tailors, huge gravestones of rabbis, horse owners and horse thieves, and most of all, for its stuffed and baked fish," Kaminksy dances with the strangest — and the most recognizable — of our bedfellows in a distinctive and utterly brilliant language, a language so particular and deft that it transcends all of our expectations, and is by turns luminous and universal.

Deaf Republic

2019-03-05 Poetry
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Release : 2019-03-05
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 800/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Deaf Republic by : Ilya Kaminsky

Download or read book Deaf Republic written by Ilya Kaminsky. This book was released on 2019-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry

2010-03-02 Poetry
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Release : 2010-03-02
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 243/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry by : Ilya Kaminsky

Download or read book The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry written by Ilya Kaminsky. This book was released on 2010-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable anthology, introduced and edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris, poetic visions from the twentieth century will be reinforced and in many ways revised. Here, alongside renowned masters, are internationally celebrated poets who have rarely, if ever, been translated into English.

Dancing on Water

2013-05-14 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2013-05-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Dancing on Water by : Elena Tchernichova

Download or read book Dancing on Water written by Elena Tchernichova. This book was released on 2013-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing on Water is both a personal coming-of-age story and a sweeping look at ballet life in Russia and the United States during the golden age of dance. Elena Tchernichova takes us from her childhood during the siege of Leningrad to her mother's alcoholism and suicide, and from her adoption by Kirov ballerina Tatiana Vecheslova, who entered her into the state ballet school, to her career in the American Ballet Theatre. As a student and young dancer with the Kirov, she witnessed the company's achievements as a citadel of classic ballet, home to legendary names--Shelest, Nureyev, Dudinskaya, Baryshnikov--but also a hotbed of intrigue and ambition run amok. As ballet mistress of American Ballet Theatre from 1978 to 1990, Elena was called "the most important behind-the-scenes force for change in ballet today," by Vogue magazine. She coached stars and corps de ballet alike, and helped mold the careers of some of the great dancers of the age, including Gelsey Kirkland, Cynthia Gregory, Natalia Makarova, and Alexander Godunov. Dancing on Water is a tour de force, exploring the highest levels of the world of dance.

Abacus of Loss

2022-03-21 Poetry
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Release : 2022-03-21
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 980/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Abacus of Loss by : Sholeh Wolpé

Download or read book Abacus of Loss written by Sholeh Wolpé. This book was released on 2022-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Sholeh Wolpé's memoir in verse, the poet wields an abacus as an instrument of remembering. Bead by bead, she takes the reader on a journey of love and exile, loss and triumph"--

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