De dövas republik
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De dövas republik
But silence, the poet knows, is also a violence; it is complacency masquerading as bravery, self-created deafness against the suffering of the vulnerable. Rate this book. And more crucially: how do we laugh, how do we love, how do we remain human? Displaying 1 - 30 of 1, reviews. I emerged from this poetry collection utterly dazed, as if torn out of a dream. Jump to ratings and reviews. It took me a long moment before I came back to myself.
This is how Deaf Republic breaks you in one poem, and restores you in the next. What is the language of resistance? I Ilya Kaminskys De dövas republik skildras de döva stadsbornas liv ständigt omgivna av hänsynslöst våld: det nygifta paret, anstiftaren till upproret och hennes dockteater, samt flickorna som på dagarna lär ut teckenspråk och om nätterna lockar med soldater mot deras död.. In these poems, Kaminsky imagines silence as a strategy, an act not of subservience but of insurgency.
Want to read. The formal ambition here is staggering, the poet's light touch and his probing attention to the metaphoric possibilities of language are nothing short of extraordinary. You can fuck anyone—but with whom can you sit in water? How do we speak of the things that haunt us the most when they defy all the languages we live in? I finished this collection with both a sense of tragedy and of hope.
This is poetry that does not leave you intact, that sits uneasily inre you. Poetry that makes you uncomfortable and even—on a less acknowledged level—implicated, and thus afraid. And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this? 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. At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we forgive us lived happily during the war. Poetry that brings you face to face with yourself, and dares you to wince away. Through these deep-seated human contradictions and ironies, Deaf Republic asks us to think about what happens to language at the center of an atrocity.
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. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Ilya Kaminsky 55 books followers. Loading interface About the author. Search review text. De har alla blivit döva och samordnar nu sitt uppror genom teckenspråk. Community Reviews. I felt, oddly, as if my heart was breaking—or rather that it was broken a long time ago and it was reassembling itself, in the aftermath of poetry, into a painful strange new shape.
Deaf Republic is unlike any poetry collection I've ever read. De dövas republik.
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But because this is poetry that also knows joy, knows beauty, there are moments that crop up amidst the violence and inhumanity that are so quietly joyful and beautiful they are almost brutal in their sheer tenderness: Soaping together is sacred to us. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa which won the Dorset Prize. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.
Goodreads Choice Award. 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. inom love this poem. I took a chair outside and watched the sun.