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Dancing in Odessa.(Book Review)
From:
Poetry
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April 1, 2005| Author:
Chiasson, Dan
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Dancing in Odessa, by Ilya Kaminsky. Tupelo Press. $16.95.
Ilya Kaminsky's Dancing in Odessa is a kind of screwball autobiography. The usual hazardous impotence of childhood was, for this poet, brutally magnified: Kaminsky and his family are Soviet emigres; Kaminsky lost most of his hearing at the age of four due to a Soviet doctor's misdiagnosis of the mumps. This is, so far as I know, the first book of poems ever written by a partly-deaf poet in a second-language he ha...