Deaf writer. Author of Country of Glass: Poems (@GallaudetPress, May 2022). Words in @NYTimes, @TheAtlantic, and others. She/her.
Dec 2, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“may God have a photograph of this”—oof. Just read Ilya Kaminsky’s DEAF REPUBLIC (@GraywolfPress) for the third time. It is such a blessing to read other deaf/hard of hearing poets.
A page from the book DEAF REPUBLIC by Ilya Kaminsky. The poem is called “Soldiers Aim at Us.” It reads: “They fire / as the crowd of women flee inside the nostrils of searchlights // —may God have a photograph of this— //
Dec 2, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Love this strange, hypnotic poem from Cszelaw Milosz’s anthology, A Book of Luminous Things. Image description below.
Page from a book that reads: “Carlos Drummond de Andrade. 1902-1987. This poem is like a joke and we are inclined, first, to smile, yet a moment of thought suffices to restore a serious meaning to such an encounter.