![]() But silence, the poet knows, is also a violence it is complacency masquerading as bravery, self-created deafness against the suffering of the vulnerable. It is a language, hidden so it wouldn’t die a way to communicate grief, defiance, and solidarity in the aftermath of a trauma so deep it scours all sounds. In these poems, Kaminsky imagines silence as a strategy, an act not of subservience but of insurgency. As a result, the whole town goes deaf in protest, as if silence is the only language left to explain the extent of their annihilation. The little boy's crime is to spit at an army sergeant who has arrived to break up a public gathering in a time of martial law. ![]() Within the drama, set in a fictional town called Vasenka, a deaf child named Petya is murdered by a soldier while attending a puppet show. The poems here are presented as a play in two acts, including a list of “Dramatis Personae” at the beginning. It took me a long moment before I came back to myself.ĭeaf Republic is unlike any poetry collection I've ever read. ![]() ![]() I emerged from this poetry collection utterly dazed, as if torn out of a dream. ![]()
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