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The book opens in an occupied territory during a time of political unrest. It asks what happens when the citizens of a country no longer hear one another. “Deaf Republic” is bracketed by two clarion poems that seem to frame our contemporary political and moral predicament. The rest of the 59 poems here are divided into two acts: “The Townspeople Tell the Story of Sonya and Alfonzo” and “The Townspeople Tell the Story of Momma Galya.”

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