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Witness and Transformation : The Poetics of Gennady Aygi

By Sarah Valentine

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781618114440, 9781618114433
LCC
PG3478.I35 -- Z89 2015eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1126463 bytes)
Series
Liber Primus Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
214\214
Time added
2023-08-15 17:30:47
Experimental poetryRussian--History and criticism.

Description

A first full-length critical study of Chuvash-born poet Gennady Aygi (1934-2006), who is considered the father of late-Soviet avant-garde Russian poetry, this book charts the development of Aygi's poetics, which draws equally on Russian poetic and religious tradition, European literature and philosophy, and Chuvash literature, folk culture, and cosmology. Moving chronologically through Aygi's life and work from the 1950s to his final work in the early 2000s, the book concludes with an interview with American poet Fanny Howe about the importance of Aygi's work in translation. The volume places Aygi in the context of twentieth-century poetry of witness and reveals the global significance of his work.

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