Deaf Republic

TitleDeaf Republic
Year for Search2019
AuthorsKaminsky, Ilya
Pagination83 pp
Date Published2019
PublisherGraywolf Press
Place PublishedMinneapolis, MN
ISBN Number978-1-55597-831-0
KeywordsDeaf author, Male author, US author
Annotation

The story/parable is told in poems and is set in the current world. In it a soldier breaking up a protest, shoots and kills a deaf boy, and the entire town becomes deaf. The people resist to the further brutality through signing, and throughout the book signs are illustrated. The specific ways of resisting by different people are depicted. Many of the poems were originally published separately, often in different form, in various outlets.

Illustration

Illus. with signs throughout the book

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

(b. 1977)

Full Text

2019 Kaminsky, Ilya (b. 1977). Deaf Republic: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press. 83 pp. PSt

The story/parable is told in poems and is set in the current world. In it a soldier breaking up a protest, shoots and kills a deaf boy, and the entire town becomes deaf. The people resist to the further brutality through signing, and throughout the book signs are illustrated. The specific ways of resisting by different people are depicted. Many of the poems were originally published separately, often in different form, in various outlets. The deaf author was born in Odessa, which was then part of the Soviet Union and is now part of Ukraine. His family was granted political asylum by the United States in 1993, and he became a citizen. He holds a J.D. from the Hastings College of Law of University of California. In 2019 he held the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Institute of Technology.