This monologue doubles as a book review of a book that doubles as a weather forecast.
Confusing?
In Deaf Republic (2019) by Ilya Kaminsky, deafness becomes an act of collective resistance after a deaf boy is murdered by a soldier at a puppet show. It’s a book of some 60 poems that show us how love, tenderness and laughter can manifest as resistance, defiance, and insurgency.
This is not poetry for leisure.
This is poetry for when the streets fill with sirens.
This is an instruction manual for surviving cruelty while staying human.
And we desperately need it.
