Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (Graywolf)

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky: 2019 Poetry finalist

By Mark Athitakis

We’ve been acculturated, especially these days, to what resistance sounds like: group chants, shared slogans, rallying cries from podiums, amplified for the masses. One of the inventions of Ilya Kaminsky’s

The Tradition by Jericho Brown: 2019 Poetry finalist

By Charles Finch

Which tradition? Whose? Jericho Brown presses these questions continually in the slender, subtle, wry, and beautiful lyric poems of The Tradition – but almost never in ways a reader might