[PDF] Deaf Soldier eBook

Author : Ilya Kaminsky
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1555978800

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Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

Author : Wallace Foster
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2018-08-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780366663392

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Excerpt from The Deaf Soldier: A Brief Synopsis of One Hundred and Two Cases of Deafness, Prepared for the Consideration of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States; January 1890 In addition to the reasons and evidence we have previously submitted in behalf of Union ex-soldiers who are suffering from total and approximating total deafness, the following compilation and extracts from letters, are printed with such other memorandum as will enable the reader to comprehend readily each case. These letters are sincere, the testimony of experience, and are deserving of con sideration, inasmuch as they present features not usually made so prominent nor generally known to any except fellow sufferers. These letters are not exceptional cases chosen from a large number to represent a case different from What the Whole number would indicate, but include each and every letter available for the purpose from the time their compilation was first; considered up to the hour of going to press. These men left their comfortable homes with all the love of patriotism, joyous manhood and vigorous health, having a perfect sense of hearing, and served their country faithfully and effectively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Harry G. Lang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781563686801

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"This book is the first ever to describe in a collective manner the deaf experience during the Civil War"--