ILYA KAMINSKY
Sunday, October 1 at 2 p.m.

One of the more remarkable younger poets at work today, Ukraine-born Ilya Kaminsky reads here as part of a Seattle visit. He has been featured at the Port Townsend Writers Conference and at Hugo House on previous visits; it is a pleasure to have him at Elliott Bay. His first full-length collection, Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo), was ForeWord Magazine's "Book of the Year," and the Addison M. Metcalf Award-winner from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. "Dancing in Odessa is born under two signs—memory and ecstasy. Ilya Kaminsky proceeds like a perfect gardener—he grafts the gifts of the Russian newer literary tradition on the American tree of poetry and forgetting. This book is as fresh as a young leaf in the spring." - Adam Zagajewski. "Kaminsky is more that a promising young poet; he is a poet of promise fulfilled. I am in awe of his gifts." - Carolyn Forché.

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