#ilya kaminsky

[havingapoemwithyou]

firing squad by Ilya Kaminsky

#Ilya Kaminsky #poetry #poem

[dr4gme]

#web weaving #poetry #on religion #religious trauma #god #sylvia plath #ethel cain #Ilya Kaminsky

[flowerytale]

Ilya Kaminsky, from "Musica Humana", Dancing in Odessa: Poems

#ilya kaminsky #dancing in odessa #poetry #poem #poems #august #fragments #typo #typography #words #*

[metamorphesque]

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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#language #parallels #web weavings #i can never speak of how i feel in my native language #the words are too heavy to roll of my tongue #quotes #literature #ilya kaminsky #poetry #translated literature #jhumpa lahiri #dark academia

[moonstoast]

—about god

#was gonna caption this ‘on god’ #but then i was like #???? #words #prose #writings #on god #web weave #web weaving #allie long #s. osborn #ilya kaminsky #anne carson #religion

[feral-ballad]

Ilya Kaminsky, from Deaf Republic: Poems; “Alfonso, in snow”

[Text ID: "You are alive, I whisper to myself, therefore something in you listens."]

#ilya kaminsky #excerpts #writings #literature #fragments #selections #words #quotes #poetry #poetry collection #lit #typography

[leonardcohenofficial]

ilya kaminsky, “we lived happily during the war”

#ilya kaminsky #poetry

[mdemn]

your god comes and he is ordinary and terrible.

andalucia - lisa marie basile / the unabridged journals of sylvia plath - sylvia plath / christ in gethsemane, heinrich hofmann, 1886 / here come the regrets - epik high & lee hi / a city like a guillotine shivers on its way to the neck - ilya kaminsky / portrait of the illness as a nightmare - leila chatti

#this one is for you henry 👆🏾 #although the sylvia plath quote is SOOOOOOO vito coded #i am once again weaving webs #i am once again asking you all if this is anything #tw religious themes #tw religion #on god #on religion #web weaving #poetry #sylvia path #ilya kaminsky #lisa marie basile #web weaves #leila chatti #vito scaletta #henry tomasino #post: poetry #post: personal

[thehopefulquotes]

I must walk on the edge of myself.

Ilya Kaminsky, from Dancing in Odessa; “Author’s Prayer,

#Ilya Kaminsky #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #relationship quotes #writing #original #words #love #relationship #thoughts #lit #prose #spilled ink #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #love quotes #poem #aesthetic

[last-tambourine]

#ilya kaminsky

[soracities]

Ilya Kaminsky, from "Author's Prayer", Dancing in Odessa

#running the last couplet through my head in quiet desparation #q #quotes #poetry #ilya kaminsky #authors prayer #dancing in odessa #its not that we have hope we shelter it #typography #contemporary lit #m #x

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript: 1. “god is fucking with my oblivion. if he wants forgiveness, he shouldn’t have given us memory.”

2. “your god comes and he is ordinary and terrible. he confers with the doctors at your kitchen table and tells you to eat….”

3. “our father who art in heaven. our father who art buried in the yard.”

4. “at the trial of god, we will ask: ‘why did you allow all this?’ and the answer will be an echo: ‘why did you allow all this?’”

5. “i don’t believe in god as much as i believe in the interrogation room. i believe in someone placing a loaded gun on a metal table between me and a door. who gets to be god then? will god be the bullet or the table or the door.”

6. “every spy knows this. some say god is where we put our sorrow. god says, which one of you fuckers can get to me first?”/end transcript.]

vi khi nao— fish in exile/leila chatti— portrait of the illness as nightmare/richard siken— snow and dirty rain/ilya kaminsky— a city like a guillotine shivers on its way to the neck/hanif abdurraqib— all the tv shows are about cops/richard siken— war of the foxes

#web weaving #ilya kaminsky #richard siken #userjamie #vi khi nao #hanif abdurraqib #leila chatti #odhran.txt #lit stacks #i feel like there’s an mcr lyric for this post but idk it

[flowerytale]

Ilya Kaminsky, from "Dancing in Odessa"

#ilya kaminsky #poetry #poem #poems #typo #typography #words #quote #quotes #fragments #*

[metamorphesque]

We Lived Happily During the War, Ilya Kaminsky

#the guilt you feel when there's a war in your country and you let a chuckle escape your lips #ilya kaminsky #deaf republic #quotes #literature #poetry #poems

[apoemaday]

Author's Prayer

by Ilya Kaminsky

If I speak for the dead, I must leave this animal of my body, I must write the same poem over and over, for the empty page is a white flag of their surrender. If I speak of them, I must walk on the edge of myself, I must live as a blind man who runs through the rooms without touching the furniture. Yes, I live. I can cross the streets asking “What year is it?” I can dance in my sleep and laugh in front of the mirror. Even sleep is a prayer, Lord, I will praise your madness, and in a language not mine, speak of music that wakes us, music in which we move. For whatever I say is a kind of petition and the darkest days must I praise.

#poetry #ilya kaminsky #author's prayer

[feral-ballad]

Ilya Kaminsky, from Deaf Republic: Poems; "A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck"

[Text ID: "At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"]

#ilya kaminsky #excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #fragments #selections #words #quotes #poetry collection #lit #typography