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Ilya Kaminsky is a hard-of-hearing Ukrainian-born Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City.
Poetry
Mother’s Pianos
Ilya Kaminsky
Whispering at night, I think I hear my mother’s voice: did I turn off the stove? No not this but did you plant the tulips over my grave? No, not this, not this—my ...
Poetry
Old Mosquito
Ilya Kaminsky
They say so much sky in her chest addicted her. They claim, with inappropriate laughter, she requested to be put in a bird house, refusing to believe in the quiet. Hers ...
