{"product_id":"my-hollywood-and-other-poems","title":"My Hollywood and Other Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The wit and daring of his rhymes and phrasing remind me of that old master, Donald Justice, who dazzled us with the elegance of his forms. Dralyuk carries this high style into the 21st century, and I, for one, am thrilled to be in the presence of his marvelous verbal art. Pay attention, readers: a new maestro is in our midst.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eIlya Kaminsky, author of \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These [poems] are the souvenirs of an almost-vanished glamour, an ethnic, gritty, free-wheeling city, little fantasias encased in rhyme and meter.\"--Jesse Nathan, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Hollywood and Other Poems \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. In forms ranging from ballades to villanelles to Onegin sonnets, the poems pursue the sublime in a tarnished landscape, seek continuity and mourn its loss in a town where change is the only constant. \u003ci\u003eMy Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the poet's own life as a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union, honors the vanishing traces of the city's past, and, in crisp and poignant translations, summons the voices of five Russian poets who spent their final years in LA, including the composer Vernon Duke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dralyuk embraces rhyme with a rare and admirable enthusiasm for sound and syllable, for musical variety and plays on words . . . [An] air of upbeat sorrow permeates \u003ci\u003eMy Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e. It's an émigré mood, defined by the conviction that things could always be worse.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sophisticated, musical, and often humorous.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Byronic rhymes are poetry's answer to special effects, and Dralyuk's skill at slipping them in--so that the art seems artless--is worthy of Industrial Light \u0026amp; Magic . . . What's true of my favorite films is true of this book: the lines are first-rate, but it's the images that linger.\"-- Austin Allen, \u003ci\u003eThe Hopkins Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMy Hollywood \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a first-rate collection of precise, delightfully graceful poems, the poet as Fred Astaire tap-dancing up and down the lines.\"--\u003ci\u003eRussian Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54418415780145,"sku":"9781589881679","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3922\/2065\/files\/imageloader_d4756476-8af7-4e40-82d8-e924e48e67af.jpg?v=1780525549","url":"https:\/\/bainbridgeisland.press\/products\/my-hollywood-and-other-poems","provider":"Bainbridge Island Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}