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Deaf Republic
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award · 2020 · ShortlistNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry · 2019 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Jean Stein Book Award | 2020 | Shortlist |
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry | 2019 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Ilya Kaminsky's lyric sequence imagines an occupied town that turns deaf in the face of violence, meditating on resistance, complicity, and the limits of language. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award and the National Book Award.
About the Author
Ilya KaminskyUA/US
Ilya Kaminsky is a Ukrainian-American poet who emigrated from Odessa as a young man. His collection Deaf Republic (Faber & Faber, 2019), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, is a fable about silence and resistance in an occupied town. Read more →
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