Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky Dean Wilson the language of love becoming

the language of love becoming as fraught with contradiction as love itself

including some translations

exploiting multiple meanings and stretching syntax

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Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky Dean Wilson the language of love becomingDescribed 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. Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance, humour and torment, and a distinctive, transcendent music. "Kaminskys poems in Dancing in Odessa seem like a literary counterpart to