cover image Child-And-Rose

Child-And-Rose

Gennady Aygi, Gennadii Aigi. New Directions Publishing Corporation, $14.95 (168pp) ISBN 978-0-8112-1536-7

With a preface by Bei Dao and translations from the Russian by Peter France, Child-and-Rose presents poet Gennady Aygi's own selection from his work. Now living in Moscow and nearly a septuagenarian, Aygi was born in the Chuvash Autonomous Republic, and writes with an imagistic compression and real time candor that recalls Robert Creeley, but is utterly unique.