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Mothers & Fathers and Magic
for its good will and for its wit
to protect myself against the imagined': advice each of us should heed
the tender melancholy of early motherhood – all these feature in a collection of poems which listen for connections: bringing ham sandwiches together with the idea of the afterlife
Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky Theo Dorgan Mothers & Fathers and MagicDescribed as "a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city" (LA Times), the poems of the prize winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance, humour and torment, and a distinctive, transcendent music. "Kaminskys poems in Dancing in Odessa seem like a literary counterpart to
