Field-Russia

By Gennady Aygi

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811217213
• ISBN13: 9780811217217
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"