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bluelilyblue's review against another edition
5.0
This deserves a proper review because WOW! but at the moment I'm just in awe. No thoughts.
kayla_can_read's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
fast-paced
5.0
Would’ve loved to hear it read aloud but stunning connections with great recommendations for continued reading
essjay1's review against another edition
5.0
Beautiful language. Heartfelt & heartbreaking. “We lived north of the future”.
megs_k's review against another edition
4.0
He writes towards your mouth
with his fingers.
~ Ily Kaminsky
with his fingers.
~ Ily Kaminsky
uriah's review
2.5
I wasn't wholly moved by this collected as I was with Deaf Republic but even so, Kaminsky's writing always stuns
lexcellent's review against another edition
5.0
I have never read anything like this before. I am in awe.
davidjordan's review against another edition
5.0
I've only recently become acquainted with Ilya Kaminsky, and I'm so glad to have made the serendipitous discovery. This poet is a genius, simply put. I hope he keeps writing books like this one (and his newest, Deaf Republic) for the rest of my life. I guarantee you I will buy and read every one of them.
sasha_hurwitz's review against another edition
5.0
I happened upon Ilya Kaminsky through Ours Poetica, the youtube channel where he recited "We Lived Happily During The War". There was something so cruel yet lamenting in the poem and his voice as he recited it. I wanted to know more. And I picked this book poetry arbitrarily.
This is a book of poetry I feel unqualified to review. I struggled to start it because of its richness and I love it because of it too. The poems are anchored in imagery so vivid that it dances out of the paper and in front of your eyes. The sobering grief and bedazzling sorrow leaves you breathless. The love poems are purer cut than the edges of a diamond. It celebrates a lot of Russian poets both bowing down to them and yet helplessly holding on them in a tumultuous period of forced maturation. This book will stay long with me.
This is a book of poetry I feel unqualified to review. I struggled to start it because of its richness and I love it because of it too. The poems are anchored in imagery so vivid that it dances out of the paper and in front of your eyes. The sobering grief and bedazzling sorrow leaves you breathless. The love poems are purer cut than the edges of a diamond. It celebrates a lot of Russian poets both bowing down to them and yet helplessly holding on them in a tumultuous period of forced maturation. This book will stay long with me.