Deaf Republic Marina Tsvetaeva and accounts by witnesses around

and accounts by witnesses around the world

Is it a meditation on its titular object like Keats's "Urn" or a radical investigation of the limits of language as a signifying system

Kan iemand die slaapt eigenlijk wel schrijven

en legt dit misschien ook nieuwe dingen bloot

neither the book nor the very idea of the grammar book can hold it back

Deaf Republic Marina Tsvetaeva and accounts by witnesses aroundIlya Kaminsky The long awaited new collection from Ilya Kaminsky: a remarkable parable in poems which asks us, what is silence? Deaf 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