{"title":"Ilya Kaminsky","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlya Kaminsky (born in Odessa, Ukraine) came to the United States as a refugee in 1993 and has become one of the most celebrated poets writing in English as an adopted language. He is deaf and the question of listening — political, historical, and personal — runs through his work. His debut collection \u003cem\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/em\u003e (Tupelo Press, 2004) received the Whiting Writers' Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award. His second collection \u003cem\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/em\u003e (Graywolf, 2019), set in an occupied fictional country, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"deaf-republic-poems","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.","brand":"Ilya Kaminsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793338433578,"sku":"9781555978310","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/deaf-republic-poems-9863047.jpg?v=1762150357"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/ilya-kaminsky.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}