{"product_id":"deaf-republic-poems-ilya-kaminsky","title":"Deaf Republic:  Poems; ILya Kaminsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIlya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarch 5, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIlya Kaminsky is the Poetry Editor of Words Without Borders. His awards include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine and first place in the National Russian Essay Contest. He is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which won the Dorset Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45535495094594,"sku":"","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/deaf.jpg?v=1688920059","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/deaf-republic-poems-ilya-kaminsky","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}