POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019 Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play, its powerful narrative provoked by a tragic opening scene: when soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - in that moment, all have gone deaf. Inside this silence, their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story then follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting their child; the daring Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theatre; and Galya's puppeteers, covertly teaching signs by day and by night heroically luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Deaf Republic confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

Deaf Republic

Literature & Fiction

Kamínsky, Ilyá

Poetry

Faber&Faber

Dancing in Odessa

Selected Poems (Russian Edition)

Ailuros Publishing

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry • Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize • Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

Deaf Republic: Poems

Graywolf Press

Arc Publications

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Pocket Guide to Glam Rock

Arts & Photography

O’Shea, Mick

Music

Red Planet

República sorda

VALPARAÍSO EDICIONES

Bailando en Odesa

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