Research Catalog

Title

Deaf republic : poems / Ilya Kaminsky.

Author

Kaminsky, Ilya, 1977-

Publication

• Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019]
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

76 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Deafness
• Political violence
• Poetry
• Deafness > Poetry
• Sign language > Poetry
• 2000-2099
• Political violence > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Dramatis Personae -- Act one. 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 -- 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 -- Cigarette -- Dog Sniffs -- What We Cannot Hear -- Central Square -- Widower -- For His Wife -- I, This Body -- Her Dresses -- Elegy -- Above Blue Tin Roofs, Deafness -- City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck -- In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky -- To Live -- Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso -- Away -- Eulogy -- Question -- Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air -- Act two. Townspeople tell the story of Momma Galya -- Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle -- When Momma Galya First Protested -- Bundle of Laundry -- What Are Days -- Galya Whispers, as Anushka Nuzzles -- Galya's Puppeteers -- In Bombardment, Galya -- 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 -- Trial -- Pursued by the Men of Vasenka -- Anonymous -- And Yet, on Some Nights.

Call Number

JFE 19-6145

ISBN

• 9781555978310
• 1555978312

LCCN

2018947088

OCLC

• 1088728242
• 1088728242

Author

Kaminsky, Ilya, 1977- author.

Title

Deaf republic : poems / Ilya Kaminsky.

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6145