Deaf Republic, a collection of war poems written by the Ukrainian American Ilya Kaminsky, have caused a sensation. Now they have been turned into an extraordinary play In Vasenka, a fictional town under military occupation, a deaf boy is shot by soldiers and the town's inhabitants become deaf in response. The opening of Deaf Republic " the remarkable second collection by the Ukrainian-American poet and translator Ily…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM on August 12, 2025