Child-and-rose / Gennady Aygi ; translated from the Russian by Peter France ; preface by Bei Dao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aĭgi, Gennadiĭ, 1934-2006.

Contributor:

France, Peter, 1935-

Series:

New Directions paperbook original ; 954.

New Directions paperbook original ; 954

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Aĭgi, Gennadiĭ, 1934-2006--Translations into English.

Aĭgi, Gennadiĭ.

Aĭgi, Gennadiĭ, 1934-2006.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 168 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 2003.

Summary:

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 Though relatively unpublished in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s, Gennady Aygi's work has been translated into some twenty languages, and has received major acclaim through many parts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 sectionsVeronica'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. "

Contents:

Veronica's Book 3

In Place of a Preface 10

Two Epigraphs 11

Prologue: Chant

Fatherhoodland 12

On the Day of First Meeting 13

My Daughter's First Week 14

Heaven-Gramophone 15

Or

Who Loves to Me 16

Appearance in a Smile 17

On Days of Illness 18

Beginning of the "Period of Likenesses" 19

And: Not Touching 20

Continuation of the "Period of Likenesses" 21

Tranquility of a Vowel 22

Now 23

Again

A Smile 24

Quietness 25

Bed Time 26

Urszula and the Wild Rose 27

A Lost Page (Or: Snow in the Garden) 28

In the Fourth Month: Attempts at Singing 29

Song from the Days of Your Forefathers 30

And: At Five Months 32

Little Tatar Song 33

Tea Rose

The Only One in the Neighborhood 34

Note

After Rocking 34

Story of the Level-Crossing Gate and the Crossing Keeper's Cabin 35

Purer than a Tear 36

Roses of Eteri Aged Three 37

Recognition of the Name 38

Story of Harlequin Grown Old 39

Smile (Meaning "Beloved") 40

Mouse Gone 41

Again: Rocking You 42

Tops of the Birches

From Childhood and till Now 43

Something from the "Period of Likenesses" 44

And: She Sleeps (in a Pram) by the Sea 45

Song of Sounds 46

In Days of Illness

Dream Image 47

Written in the Fields 48

Chuvash Song for a Girl Your Age 49

Still Remembering the Same Temple 50

Long Walk 50

And: Somewhere a Little Boy is Sleeping 51

Vision: A Young Girl 52

Phloxes in Town 53

Lullaby? It is Yours 54

Ex-Libris

For You

In Verse 55

Something

Again about a Boy 56

Your First Sea with Me 57

Trying to Catch Expressions 58

Little Song for You

About your Father 59

Written Down While Sitting with You on the Balcony 60

Pause in my Daughter's "Book" 61

Often Five-Year-Old Asya Comes to See Us 63

Field Dream 64

Continuation 65

Playing Finger Games 66

And: Oats in Flower Beyond the Meadow 67

Singing and Silence 68

The Third Grasshopper (Now

For You) 69

To a Friend

Instead of a Letter 70

First Words 71

Closeness of Roses 72

Vision: A Girl 73

She Sleeps 74

About This 75

Something Precious 76

And: The First Half Year 76

Child-And-Rose 77

Epilogue: Lullaby-Suwalkie 78

And: Farewell to the Book 79

A Last Word from the Author 80

Sleep-and-Poetry 81

Before and After the Book 99

Roses in Town 101

Mozart: "Cassation I" 102

Now there are Always Snows 103

About This 105

Snow

In an "Old" District of Moscow 106

Among Oaks 107

Leaf-Fall and Silence 108

Again: Appearance of a Bluetit 109

Snow At Midday 110

And

Strangely: "Somewhere"

My Daughter 111

Two Little Songs for the Two of Us 112

Again: Air in the Tops

Of Birches 113

My Daughter's Autumn Walk 114

Now Such a One Also 116

House

In the Grove of the World 117

This August's Phloxes 118

Supper: House Outside Town 119

Gift

A Birch Grove 120

Awaiting a Friend 121

House in the Field 122

Together 123

Quietness with a Happening 124

Drawing Long Ago 125

Phloxes at Night in Berlin 126

Two Epilogues 127

Daughter in a Clearing 128

Birch at Noon 129

During a Friend's Illness 130

Fields of this Summer 131

Drawing for Peter France 133

With an Ancient Memory 134

From Lines in A Dream 135

Day

Towards Evening 136

Long Ago 137

Beginning from the Field 138

The People Are A Temple 138

From "Long Parting" 139

Silvia's World 141

Poetry-as-Silence 155.

ISBN:

0811215369

OCLC:

50773450