{"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\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIlya Kaminsky\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003eMarch 1 2019\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781555978310\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1555978312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48669819371772,"sku":"6119","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/4006\/8604\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_a9ee13f0-45f3-4569-919b-3e5c3281d0e9.jpg?v=1769046472","url":"https:\/\/goldenleafbooks.com\/products\/deaf-republic-poems","provider":"Golden Leaf Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}