False Scent by Ngaio Marsh - Book Club, 1961

False Scent by Ngaio Marsh - Book Club, 1961

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False Scent by Ngaio Marsh - Book Club, 1961Title: False Scent Author: Ngaio Marsh Publisher: Book Club Publication Date: 1961 Format: Hardcover Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some signs of wear. Reader's note The birthday party which Mary Bellamy gave each year had become a theatrical tradition; an occasion when the great names and glittering personalities came to display their affection and pay their homage to the brightest star of the British stage. But on

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Ilya Kaminsky is practically a legend, at this point, and deservedly so. This is his second book of poems, and proves well worth the wait. The individual poems are beautiful and strange; together, they comprise a kind of allegory for our times, and manage to be both somehow light-of-heart, somehow luminous, and also seriously profound. I would recommend this book even to those who don't usually read poetry, because it's beyond poetry, truly.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2019

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khaidon

Charlottesville, US

★★★★★ 5

Beautifully written and good quality book

Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback

I received the book earlier than the estimated date. I love this poem collection of Ilya Kaminsky. Although it describes the social unrest in an unknown place (and unfamiliar to me), his poems are beautifully written with strong images and music. THe paper quality and the book are so new and lovely. I couldn't think that it is used (as it stated).

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Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2021

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Cecile L. Schubert

Whiting, US

★★★★★ 4

Life: A challenge in many ways in all cultures

Format: Kindle

I heard Ilya Kaminsky read his poems at Chautauqua this past summer. Over powering and dynamic to hear his voice speak his words... about his life experiences need to be remembered. A must read and if possible with the audio.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2019

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Mike Stone

New York, US

★★★★★ 5

A brilliant poetic narrative whose lines leap off the pages which turn themselves.

Format: Paperback

When you get to the end, you wonder how Kaminsky worked his wondrous magic, how it's possible to think and write poetry like that. The poem is a story about Vasenka, a mythical town somewhere in the Ukraine, occupied by the Soviet army during an unspecified period of time. It is an allegory of the cruelty of occupation, the futility of the resistance of a few, and the deafness of the silent majority, a deafness that courageously resists the occupation and a deafness that hardens the heart and ignores the evil surrounding them. It could have happened anywhere anytime. The occupiers could have been Nazis, Ottoman Turks, American, English, or Spanish. The poetry is piercingly sharp, visionary, breathless and the metaphors are the likes of which you've never heard before, lines like “the sound we do not hear lifts the gulls off the water,” “Our hearing doesn't weaken, but something silent in us strengthens,” or “In these avenues, deafness is our only barricade.” This is drop-dead beautiful poetry.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2019

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ARTHUR KLEIN

Belleville, US

★★★★★ 5

Haunting Humanity lurks in war’s reactions.

Format: Kindle

The poem moves efficiently through the myriad experiences that result from deadly conflict with a nameless and menacing enemy. I kept thinking I was reading a rendering of Kafka with the haunting glimpses of the horror of permanent victim hood. Now I must study the Deaf Republic and hope for understanding.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2025