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Author Valentine, Sarah, 1977- author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Title Witness and Transformation : The Poetics of Gennady Aygi / Sarah Valentine.

Publication Info. Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Series Liber Primus
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Chuvash Poetics: Forming an Aesthetic -- Chapter Two: The Moscow Neo-Avant-Garde -- Chapter Three: Three Poems Called "Silence": The Human-Word as Divine Mystery -- Chapter Four: Poem as Reliquary: Violence, Elegy, Witness -- Chapter Five: After the Fall: Poetry of the 1990s and 2000s -- Final Thoughts: A Conversation with Fanny Howe on Poetry Crossing Borders -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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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Language In English.
Subject Aĭgi, Gennadiĭ, 1934-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Aĭgi, Gennadiĭ, 1934-2006.
Criticism and interpretation.
Experimental poetry, Russian -- History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, Russian.
Poetics.
Poetics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
ISBN 1618114441
9781618114440 (electronic book)
Standard No. 10.1515/9781618114440.