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Author Kaminsky, Ilya, 1977- author.

Uniform Title Poems. Selections
Title Deaf republic : poems / Ilya Kaminsky.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 76 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Note 583517 11/07/2019 Adult
Poems.
Summary 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. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, these poems confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
Contents We lived happily during the war -- Dramatis personae -- Act one : The townspeople tell the story of Sonya and Alfonso : Gunshot -- As soldiers march, Alfonso covers the boy's face with a newspaper -- Alfonso, in snow -- Deafness, an insurgency, begins -- Alfonso stands answerable -- That map of bone and opened valves -- The townspeople circle the boy's body -- Of weddings before the war -- Still newlyweds -- Soldiers aim at us -- Checkpoints -- Before the war, we made a child -- As soldiers choke the stairwell -- 4 a.m. bombardment -- Arrival -- Lullaby -- Question -- While the child sleeps, Sonya undresses -- A Cigarette -- A dog sniffs -- What we cannot hear -- Central Square -- A widower -- For his wife -- I, this body -- Her dresses -- Elegy -- Above blue tin roofs, deafness -- A city like a guillotine shivers on its way to the neck -- In the bright sleeve of the sky -- To live -- The townspeople watch them take Alfonso -- Away -- Eulogy -- Question -- Such is the story made of stubbornness and a little air -- Act two : The townspeople tell the story of Momma Galya : Townspeople speak of Galya on her green bicycle -- When Momma Galya first protested -- A bundle of laundry -- What are days -- Galya whispers, as Anushka nuzzles -- Galya's puppeteers -- In Bombardment, Galya -- The little bundles -- Galya's toast -- Theater nights -- And while puppeteers are arrested -- Soldiers don't like looking foolish -- Search patrols -- Lullaby -- Firing squad -- Question -- Yet, I am -- The trial -- Pursued by the men of Vasenka -- Anonymous -- And yet, on some nights -- In a time of peace.
Awards National Book Award: Poetry Finalist, 2019
Subject Sign language -- Poetry.
Political violence -- Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
Deafness. (OCoLC)fst00888573
Political violence. (OCoLC)fst01069902
Sign language. (OCoLC)fst01118246
American poetry.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Poetry.
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
ISBN 1555978312 (paperback)
9781555978310 (paperback)
1555978800 (ebook)
9781555978808 (ebook)

 
    
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