You are invited to read Ilya Kaminsky's essay "Reading Dante in Ukraine" in the November installment of Marsh Hawk Press' "Chapter One" series. You can read the entire essay HERE, and it begins as follows:
I have a friend who, before she ran from Kyiv as Russia bombarded the city in early 2022, spent weeks shivering in the bomb shelters as the city was shelled.
At first, she first recited poems by heart, and then she began to translate the poems she remembered.
That is how she got through the hours.
Who is to tell me after this that poetry doesn’t matter?
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