Deaf Republic: Poems

Finalist for the National Book Award - Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award - Finalist for the...
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Author: Ilya Kaminsky
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Language: English
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Deaf Republic: Poems by Kaminsky, Ilya

Deaf Republic: Poems

Dhs. 84.77

Deaf Republic: Poems

Dhs. 84.77
Author: Ilya Kaminsky
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Finalist for the National Book Award - Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award - Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award - Winner of the National Jewish Book Award - Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award - 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.

Author: Ilya Kaminsky
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781555978310


Award: National Book Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2019 pg. 91
Publishers Weekly 12/17/2018
Booklist 03/01/2019 pg. 16

About the Author
Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union. He is the author of a poetry collection, Dancing in Odessa, and coeditor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry. He was a 2014 finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

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