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Book SynopsisGennady Aygi's poems are as pleasurable for the uniqueness and clarity of their crafting as they are for the spirit they express. and -- the fields -- rise -- into the sky from each star -- there is -- a course to every other -- star Gennady Aygi (1934--2006) is regarded as the Chuvash national poet. Relatively unpublished until the 1980s in the Soviet Union, he has been celebrated abroad, nominated for the Nobel Prize on multiple occasions, and translated into more than twenty languages. Sarah Valentine is a poet and scholar who teaches at the University of California Riverside. This is her first book of translations.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Once Again: Into the Snow A Few Notes on Poetry People Girl in Childhood Dream: Flight of the Dragonfly Now Always Snow The Last Ravine Silence Farewell Silence Untitled On Reading the Poem “Untitled” Aloud Again: In Breaks Between Sleep Field near Ferapontovo “Swallow”: A Way of Connecting Mother Silence Pines-with-Birch Pine on Rock Rose of Silence Bidding Shalamov Farewell And: One Year Later The Shaman and the Potato Five Matryoshkas Hunger — 1947 Kazimir Malevich Summer with Angels The Tale of the Aging Harlequin Winter Bender N. Kh. Among the Paintings Degree: Of Stability Field: At the Height of Winter This Year’s Roses Outskirts: Winter Without People Reading Norwid Past and Utopian Regarding a Long-Distance Conversation Song from the Time of Your Forefathers Little Tatar Song Excerpts from Thirty-six Variations on Chuvash and Tatar Folk Songs Two Epilogues Garden — Grief Response to a Friend’s Book Excerpts from Thirty-six Variations on Chuvash and Mari Folk Songs Excerpts from Twenty-eight Variations on Chuvash and Udmurt Folk Songs Starting from the Field Long Ago Summer with Prantel In the Middle of the Field Untitled Field — Without Us
