
Ilya Kaminsky — We Lived Happily during the War
Poetry Unbound
A Poem About Deafness by Ilyakeminski
Ilyakeminski is deaf himself, and so he is oring deafness as an ethical response to oppression. The use of repetition in this poem makes it sound what you would call, in literary criticism, lyric. This is a devastating poem about complicity, but yet it has the consolation of lyric poe. And that's a really interesting contrast. A poem almost of self accusation. At the end there is this request forgive us. I'm speaking about so many different places where there is ted tension or even war,. How lots of people know you can make a profit from fear, you can making a profit from war.
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