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A review by sunstreamer
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
3.0
"You, in the middle of an unwritten sentence, stop,
exile to a place further than silence."
blind read - not familiar with this author or his story, so there's a lot of the writing that i think would have been more impactful if i had known the context for it.
(not that poetry inherently needs context, but without being able to connect the words to my own life - i can only appreciate his words as a reflection of his own life, which i don't know.)
note to self for reading similar poetry anthologies in the future...
exile to a place further than silence."
blind read - not familiar with this author or his story, so there's a lot of the writing that i think would have been more impactful if i had known the context for it.
(not that poetry inherently needs context, but without being able to connect the words to my own life - i can only appreciate his words as a reflection of his own life, which i don't know.)
note to self for reading similar poetry anthologies in the future...