Destruction across Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s invasion
Al Panteliat is a poet from Kharkiv—he and I have been in touch for over a decade, exchanging notes, translating poems. Now, one word that…
Ilya Kaminsky
Steel anti-tank obstacles on the road near Mariupol, Ukraine For the first two months of war, I can’t locate my uncle in Odesa. Uncle Valerii, who is over eighty, and usually very active on social me…
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2019. 76 pages. This book-length series of poems, Ilya Kaminsky’s second collection, is written as two progressively darkening acts of a play set in the imaginary town of…
