{"product_id":"deaf-republic-poems-9781555978310","title":"Deaf Republic: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Jean Stein Award \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e Winner of the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Jewish Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeaf 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 \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555978310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2019 pg. 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/17\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ilya Kaminsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659653738652,"sku":"9781555978310","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_cb78d145-87b8-45d1-90c9-aedbb42486ba.jpg?v=1603895207","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/deaf-republic-poems-9781555978310","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}