![]() ![]() The following exchange was conducted via e-mail this past November and December it also draws on conversations, many of them on long evening walks, from the month Ilya and I spent together in Marfa, Texas, in late 2016, as Ilya was finishing his manuscript. After several years teaching in the graduate creative writing program at San Diego State University, Ilya now holds the Bourne Poetry Chair at Georgia Tech. He is also the editor in chief of the literary journal Poetry International. His anthology of twentieth-century poetry in translation, Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, was published in 2010. ![]() His honors include a Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award, a Lannan Fellowship, Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He studied at the University of Rochester and Georgetown University and has a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Substantially deaf from the age of four, he spoke no English when he immigrated to the United States with his family at sixteen. Ilya was born in Odessa, in what was then the Soviet Union, in 1977. ![]()
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