Of Form and Flight
Ilya Kaminsky in the Moment
On the plane to Prague, I am reading Ilya Kaminsky’s Dancing in Odessa. Russia had already begun their aggressive assault, and I want to reread his elemental and lyrical lines. To go, at this time, where a poet’s voice will take me. In his essay from Words of War: New Poems from Ukraine, Kaminsky quotes poet Zbigniew Herbert who wrote: “a poet is like a…
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