Field Russia
by Gennady Aygi
Translated from Russian by Peter France
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.
Paperback(published Oct, 01 2007)
- ISBN
- 9780811217217
- Price US
- 15.95
- Price CN
- 19
- Trim Size
- 6x9
- Page Count
- 144