Field-Russia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811217217)

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.

Author: Gennady Aygi
ISBN-10: 0811217213
ISBN-13: 9780811217217
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2007
Pages: 171
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2007 pg. 72