RaveThe New York Times Book Review\"Poetry lives by specifics (indeed, this is what makes it the most effective weapon against demagogy and tyranny), and Kaminsky is wonderfully attentive to such repeating patterns of details, contributing to the impression that his book is a through-composed whole, rather than simply a sequence of individual poems. Civilian warfare is conjured most effectively through occasional vivid images ... part of the power of Deaf Republic lies in its exercise of the imagination ... And Deaf Republic is no easy book. A visit to this republic will not leave the reader unchanged.\
