several times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, winner of a number of international literary prizes, and translated into over twenty languages, Gennady Aygi is regarded as one of the most important Russian poets of the second half of theth century.
He is a poet of the country and stands totally against the classical tradition of Russian poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky.
"Poetry London Newsletter
"Gennady Aygi is considered to be a major and original voice in contemporary poetry.
Aygis poetry is a curious hybrid, influenced by Russian Symbolism and Futurism, European Modernism, and his Chuvash culture with its ancient pagan religion.
"Journal of European Studies
"Peter Frances scrupulous versions are faithful not simply to the often ambiguous sense of the originals, but also to the typographical minutiae which spell out the exclamations, questionings, pauses, vulnerabilities and praises of this most remarkable poet.
"Times Literary Supplement
These "variations" on folkloric themes are born out of the Chuvash and Turkic motifs that Aygi grew up with, and which Aygi and France have collected in their work on Chuvash poetry.
A Turkic language, Chuvash is spoken by about a million and a half people in and around Chuvashiaformerly an autonomous republic of the USSRlocatedmiles east of
Moscow.
Now in hiss, Aygi continues to be celebrated as the Chuvash national poet, and as a major poet of the Russian language.
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The birchs rustle like a whispered goodbye,
and above it
a solitary swift
like falling scissors.
Gennady Aygi and Peter France have collaborated on numerous books, including Gennady Aygi: Selected Poems translated by Peter France, and An Anthology of Chuvash Poetry compiled by Gennady Aygi and translated by Peter France.
Gennady Nikolaevich Aygi Russian: Геннадий Николаевич Айги, Chuvash: Геннадий Николаевич АйхиAugustFebruary, Moscow was a Chuvash poet and a translator, His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian, Aygi is widely considered to be one of the great avant garde poets from the former Soviet Union.
He was born in Chuvashia, then a Soviet Republic, and moved to Moscow into study at the Literary Institute.
Though Aygis poetry was not published in the Soviet Union until thes, his work was widely translated and he received numerous honors, including multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize.
Gennady Nikolaevich Aygi Russian: Геннадий Николаевич Айги, Chuvash: Геннадий Николаевич АйхиAugustFebruary, Moscow was a Chuvash poet and a translator, His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian, Aygi is widely considered to be one of the great avant garde poets from the former Soviet Union.
He was born in Chuvashia, then a Soviet Republic, and moved to Moscow into study at the Literary Institute.
Though Aygi's poetry was not published in the Soviet Union until thes, his work was widely translated and he received numerous honors, including multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize.
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