![]() ![]() So this poem, “We Lived Happily During the War,” it’s the opening poem in a book called Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky. Our great country of money, we (forgive us) In the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, Of a disastrous reign in the house of money I took a chair outside and watched the sun. Was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. “And when they bombed other people’s houses, we ![]() “We Lived Happily during the War” by Ilya Kaminsky: And I always associate this book with reading it on packed planes with people who had ashes on their forehead, a book that asks people to pay attention to their complicity. ![]() It was Ash Wednesday, and so I and loads of other people had ashes on our forehead. And I’d read it three times before I arrived back in Dublin. And I was flying home from Minneapolis to Ireland, and I was able to buy it in the airport. Pádraig Ó Tuama: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama, and I, like lots of people, had been waiting for the book Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky, to come out for months. ![]()
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