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Ilya Kaminsky




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Dancing in Odessa Dancing in Odessa
by Ilya Kaminsky
avg rating 4.29 — 173 ratings — published 2004
2 editions
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Musica Humana Musica Humana
by Ilya Kaminsky
avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published 2002
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The Ecco Anthology of Internat... The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
by Ilya Kaminsky, Susan Harris
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Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thou... Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture: Spring/Summer 2007
by Ilya Kaminsky, Rami M. Shapiro, Riv-Ellen Prell
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Dancing in the Sacred Cave Dancing in the Sacred Cave
by Jack Webb (Editor), Kay Ryan, Ekiwah Adler-Belendez, Li-Young Lee, Ilya Kaminsky
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"Author's Prayer

If I speak for the dead, I must
leave this animal of my body,

I must write the same poem over and over
for the empty page is a white flag of their surrender.

If I speak of them, I must walk
on the edge of myself, I must live as a blind man

who runs through the rooms without
touching the furniture.

Yes, I live. I can cross the streets asking "What year
is it?"
I can dance in my sleep and laugh

in front of the mirror.
Even sleep is a prayer, Lord,

I will praise your madness, and
in a language not mine, speak

of music that wakes us, music
in which we move. For whatever I say

is a kind of petition and the darkest days
must I praise."
Ilya Kaminsky (Dancing in Odessa)
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