Musica Humana, a chapbook by Ilya Kaminsky



"What a glory Musica Humana is, all the depths and outer reaches of a human
heart sung and spoken into visible existence. It is a book I wish I'd written,
full of weeping and laughing and clapping and howling. It reaches far back into
collective human imagination and charges our present moment with a great sense
of destiny. I will read it again and again." --Li-Young Lee

"Ilya Kaminsky’s debut collection is the fourth volume in Chapiteau’s
series of beautifully designed hand-stitched chapbooks... Kaminsky
writes in a language from which he is doubly estranged, chasing an
essential and ungraspable music: “in a language not mine, [I] speak /
of music that wakes us, music / in which we move. For whatever I say //
is a kind of petition”...a remarkable debut, one that affords a rare
and exhilarating pleasure: the sense of being at the start of something
marvelous. --Garth Greenwell, Boston Review

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32 pages of poetry, hand-stitched binding, with dust jacket featuring a photo by Daniel Powers, ISBN 1-931498-32-6, $12

To order Musica Humana, contact Ann Aspell at AAspell@aol.com or write to:
CHAPITEAU PRESS, 13 Bailey Avenue, Montpelier, Vermont, 05602