I am your boy
drowning in this country, who doesn’t know

the word for drowning
and yells

i am diving for the last time!
‘For His Wife’ (pg.35)

This was just phenomenal and completely unique; I don’t think I’ve ever read a collection quite like this. The poem ‘Soldiers Aim at Us’ on pg.20 was the first time a sob broke out of me and I couldn’t stop after that point. These poems feel as though they have been carved out of our history as well as our present/future, and Kaminsky presents an image so brutally real it’s impossible to read this numbly. It cracks you expertly with beautiful language, haunting and unsettling imagery, and the horror of reality.

Urgent, vital, and devastating, Deaf Republic is a work of genius...readers will feel the repercussions of its words for a long, long time.