Dancing in Odessa

Described as 'a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures.

About the author

Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union and is now an American citizen. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa (2004) and Deaf Republic (2019), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is coeditor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. He has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Summary

Described as 'a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures.

Product details

• Authors: Ilya Kaminsky
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780571369188
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36918-8
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)