Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky, 2019
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A book-length poem set in an occupied town where, after soldiers kill a deaf boy, the townspeople all go deaf in protest and organize resistance through sign. Kaminsky, hard of hearing since childhood, threads illustrated signs through the text itself. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a National Book Award finalist. Deafness as political refusal, in one of the most acclaimed poetry books of its decade.
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Published by Graywolf Press. Available at most public libraries, on Bookshare (free for print-disabled individuals), and anywhere books are sold. Several poems from it are free to read at Poetry Foundation.