RaveOn the SeawallThe light that shines from the language in Deaf Republic illuminates the terrible truths about what Philip Larkin called \'the misery that man hands on to man\' ... Kaminsky has found an uplifting, canny way to memorialize his hometown’s martyrs, while simultaneously erasing the names of the Nazi fascists from human memory ... stringent medicine for all nations, especially powerful ones that have grown slack in their apprehension and practice of the \'categorical imperative.\' With its lapidary, figurative conceits, this poem that weaves in and out of poetry, drama, and prose as a hybrid and liminal tour de force works on both the stage and page as a poignant reminder for our present age of the proverbial dangers of fascism’s recrudescence.
