Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
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.

Kaminsky, Ilya: - Ilya Kaminsky is the author of DANCING IN ODESSA (Tupelo Press) and co-editor of A GOD IN THE HOUSE: POETS TALK ABOUT FAITH (Tupelo Press) and Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins). He has received Whiting Writers Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, and Lannan Fellowship.

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ISBN 13	9781555978310
ISBN 10	1555978312
Titel	Deaf Republic
Autor	Ilya Kaminsky
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Graywolf Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-03-05
Seitenanzahl	80
Preise	Commended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2019
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