9781555978310-1555978312-Deaf Republic: Poems

Deaf Republic: Poems

ISBN-13: 9781555978310
ISBN-10: 1555978312
Author: Ilya Kaminsky
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback 80 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781555978310
ISBN-10: 1555978312
Author: Ilya Kaminsky
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback 80 pages

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Deaf Republic: Poems (ISBN-13: 9781555978310 and ISBN-10: 1555978312), written by authors Ilya Kaminsky, was published by Graywolf Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Sign Language (Words, Language & Grammar ) books. You can easily purchase or rent Deaf Republic: Poems (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Sign Language books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.55.

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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.

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