Welcome to Litsy!

This poetry collection very much pays homage to past Ukrainian poets. I spent a lot of time on Wikipedia reading about these poets and authors that I had never heard of. This is Kaminsky‘s first book in English. There is also a lot of dancing, unsurprisingly. I think anyone with more knowledge of Ukraine and Ukrainian poets would understand and enjoy this more than I did.

“But on certain afternoons
the Republic of Psalms opens up
and I grow frightened that I haven‘t lived, died, not enough
to scratch this ecstasy into vowels, hear
splashes of clear, biblical speech.”

-from the section in his book, Musica Humana