Deaf Republic
| Title | Deaf Republic |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Kaminsky, Ilya |
| Pagination | 83 pp |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Graywolf Press |
| Place Published | Minneapolis, MN |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-55597-831-0 |
| Keywords | Deaf 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 | PSt |
| 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. |
