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Deaf Republic: Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ilya KaminskyPublish date:2019-03-05Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graywolf PressISBN-13:9781555978310ISBN-10:1555978312UPC:9781555978310Book Category:Poetry, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:American, Russian & Soviet, Sign LanguageAward:2019 National Book Awards Finalist - Poetry AwardSize:8.90 x 6.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCZ84CW6PM

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graywolf PressISBN-13:9781555978310ISBN-10:1555978312UPC:9781555978310Book Category:Poetry, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:American, Russian & Soviet, Sign LanguageAward:2019 National Book Awards Finalist - Poetry AwardSize:8.90 x 6.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCZ84CW6PM
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.
Publisher: Graywolf Press

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🏆 2019 National Book Awards Finalist - Poetry Award

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Ilya Kaminsky

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