The central work by the world-famous Chuvashian who writes with an imagistic compression an 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 poetry, and is followed by a series of little lyric books – Field-Russia, Time of the Ravines, and Final Departure –that form a part of Aygi’s life-book. Like Ahkmatova and Celan before him, Aygi has left us with these most necessary words to dwell in–a quiet, spiritual poetry in a time of uprootedness and despair.