| Child-And-Rose Contributor(s): Aigi, Gennadii (Author), Aygi, Gennady (Author), France, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811215369 ISBN-13: 9780811215367 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2003 Annotation: A remarkable poetic account of a man and his daughter. Though relatively unpublished in the Soviet Union until the late 1980's, Gennady Aygi's work has been translated into some twenty languages, and has received major acclaim through many parts of the world. Child-and-Rose is a unique collection of poems and prose chosen and arranged by the author and translator. Taking as its central themes childhood, sleep, and silence in relation to poetic creation, the book is divided into five sections -- "Veronica's Book, " "Sleep-and-Poetry, " "Before and After the Book, " "Silvia's World, " and "Poetry-as-Silence" -- all written between 1972 and 2002. In this collection, each poem is a carefully crafted space of language that surfaces from the heart of a poetic consciousness at "the limits of intelligibility, " as the translator notes. Images of Aygi's Chuvash homeland -- birches, oaks, snow, roses, fields --mix with a disrupted syntax, astonishing turns, gaps, and suspensions that all speak to a quiet stillness of being. Gennady Aygi was born in 1934 in the village of Shaymurzino, in the Chuvash Autonomous Republic, some 500 miles east of Moscow. Due to his ties with Pasternak, Aygi was expelled from the Gorky Literary Institute, and went on to found a society of underground artists in Moscow. He has worked at the Mayakovsky Museum, organizing art exhibitions, although he has lived in poverty for most of his life. He lives in Moscow. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 891.714 |
| LCCN: 2002151607 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.26" W x 8.12" (0.47 lbs) 168 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A remarkable poetic account of a man and his daughter. Though relatively unpublished in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s, Gennady Aygi's work has been translated into some twenty languages, and has received major acclaim through many parts of the world. Child-and-Rose is a unique collection of poems and prose chosen and arranged by the author and translator. Taking as its central themes childhood, sleep, and silence in relation to poetic creation, the book is divided into five sectionsVeronica's Book, Sleep-and-Poetry, Before and After the Book, Silvia's World, and Poetry-as-Silenceall written between 1972 and 2002. In this collection, each poem is a carefully crafted space of language that surfaces from the heart of a poetic consciousness at the limits of intelligibility, as the translator notes. Images of Aygi's Chuvash homelandbirches, oaks, snow, roses, fieldsmix with a disrupted syntax, astonishing turns, gaps, and suspensions that all speak to a quiet stillness of being. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aygi, Gennady: - Gennady Aygi (1934-2006) was born in a village in the Chuvash Republic, a land with a Turkic language, and eventually became the Chuvash national poet, later moving to Moscow. Like Platonov, he couldn't publish his work in the Soviet Union until the 1980s. New Directions publishes his books Child-And-Rose and Field-Russia.France, Peter: - Peter France has published widely on French, Russian, and comparative literature. New Directions publishes his translations of Gennady Aygi. |