Deaf Republic is an investigation into “what happens to language in a time of crisis, how we carry on and how we try to remain human,” he explains. “The Soviet doctor said it was just a cold and sent us away,” he says, without self-pity. “Pretty much all my childhood and adolescence was spent watching the Soviet Union fall apart, but I couldn’t hear, so I followed the century with my eyes. “I’m afraid I’m a creature of passions who has trouble saying no to people, partly because I’m a deaf child. Deaf Republic is bookended by two poems that speak as much about the US as they do about the land of his birth.

Source: The Guardian July 19, 2019 09:56 UTC