“[I’ve learned] to receive a dream — and to give the hours, days, life.”
Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press). Kaminsky is also a cotranslator of Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books) and coeditor of Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins). He has received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award. Kaminsky’s books have been translated into over twenty languages.