Field-Russia

The central work by the world-famous Chuvashian who writes with an imagistic compression and real time candor that is utterly unique (Publishers Weekly).

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 ...