Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
PBS Summer Choice 2019 George Herbert while at the same time

while at the same time seeming snug as bugs in their tightly interlocked chainmail of precise language…

elegy and humour

fearlessly exploring its culverts and cul-de-sacs while also checking this earnestness with sharp wit and trademark style

both in humanistic study and modern culture

but also gaining new tonal energy in a functional strangeness

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky <br><b>PBS Summer Choice 2019</b> George Herbert while at the same timeDeaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play, its powerful narrative provoked by a tragic opening scene: when soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, the gunshot becomes the last thing the