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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.
Publisher : Graywolf Press (March 5, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 80 pages
ISBN-10 : 1555978312
ISBN-13 : 978-1555978310
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 0.4 x 8.95 inches
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Customers find this poetry collection beautifully written and powerful, with one review describing it as a love story written as one long poem. The writing style is elegant in its imagination and language, and the collection is deeply moving, with one customer noting how it serves as a stark reminder of our moral responsibilities. They appreciate the narrative style, with one review highlighting how it comprises a kind of allegory for our times, while another notes how silence and deafness have multiple and complex meanings throughout the work.
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