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Field-Russia, by
Gennady Aygi
Translated from the Russian, with an Afterword, by
Peter France |
The
central work by the world-famous Chuvashian who "writes with an
imagistic compression and real time candor that is utterly unique" (Publishers
Weekly).
Lifelong Aygi translator and friend Peter France wrote in The Guardian: "Aygi wrote from a deep awareness of the losses and destructions of the 20th century." Field-Russia is a book of poems arranged shortly before Aygi's death, which in his view occupied a central place in his work. The collection opens with an informal conversation about poetry, and is followed by a series of little lyric "books"—Field-Russia, Time of the Ravines, and Final Departure—that form a part of Aygi's "life-book." Like Ahkmatova and Celan before him, Aygi has left us with these most necessary words to dwell in—a quiet, spiritual poetry in a time of uprootedness and despair.
GENNADY AYGI was born on August 21, 1934, some 400 miles east of
Moscow in a village in the Chuvash Republic. He was the Chuvash national
poet, has been published in more than twenty countries, and received many
honors including the Legion d'Honneur, the Petrarch Prize, and the Pasternak
Prize.
Date of publication:
October 2007
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