Child-And-Rose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811215367)

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 Though relatively unpublished in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s, Gennady Aygi's work has been translated into some twenty languages, and has received major acclaim through many parts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 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 homelandbirches, oaks, snow, roses, fieldsmix with a disrupted syntax, astonishing turns, gaps, and suspensions that all speak to a quiet stillness of being.

Author: Gennadii Aigi, Gennady Aygi, Peter France
ISBN-10: 0811215369
ISBN-13: 9780811215367
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.26w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 06/23/2003 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 06/23/2003