Deaf republic poems
Deaf 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 l...
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[2019]
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| 520 | |a Deaf 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. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, these poems confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t We lived happily during the war -- |t Dramatis personae -- |g Act one : |t The townspeople tell the story of Sonya and Alfonso : |t Gunshot -- |t As soldiers march, Alfonso covers the boy's face with a newspaper -- |t Alfonso, in snow -- |t Deafness, an insurgency, begins -- |t Alfonso stands answerable -- |t That map of bone and opened valves -- |t The townspeople circle the boy's body -- |t Of weddings before the war -- |t Still newlyweds -- |t Soldiers aim at us -- |t Checkpoints -- |t Before the war, we made a child -- |t As soldiers choke the stairwell -- |t 4 a.m. bombardment -- |t Arrival -- |t Lullaby -- |t Question -- |t While the child sleeps, Sonya undresses -- |t A Cigarette -- |t A dog sniffs -- |t What we cannot hear -- |t Central Square -- |t A widower -- |t For his wife -- |t I, this body -- |t Her dresses -- |t Elegy -- |t Above blue tin roofs, deafness -- |t A city like a guillotine shivers on its way to the neck -- |t In the bright sleeve of the sky -- |t To live -- |t The townspeople watch them take Alfonso -- |t Away -- |t Eulogy -- |t Question -- |t Such is the story made of stubbornness and a little air -- |g Act two : |t The townspeople tell the story of Momma Galya : |t Townspeople speak of Galya on her green bicycle -- |t When Momma Galya first protested -- |t A bundle of laundry -- |t What are days -- |t Galya whispers, as Anushka nuzzles -- |t Galya's puppeteers -- |t In Bombardment, Galya -- |t The little bundles -- |t Galya's toast -- |t Theater nights -- |t And while puppeteers are arrested -- |t Soldiers don't like looking foolish -- |t Search patrols -- |t Lullaby -- |t Firing squad -- |t Question -- |t Yet, I am -- |t The trial -- |t Pursued by the men of Vasenka -- |t Anonymous -- |t And yet, on some nights -- |t In a time of peace. |
| 586 | |a National Book Award: Poetry Finalist, 2019 | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Deafness |v Poetry. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sign language |v Poetry. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Political violence |v Poetry. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American poetry |y 21st century. | |
| 655 | 0 | |a Poetry. | |
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