Comments on: chuvash neofuturism, or, blogging the msa, part 3

By: Don Share

Don Share — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:58:48 +0000

There’s an interview in the new book mentioned above in which Aygi says:
“As I see it, free verse remains completely undeveloped in contemporary Russian poetry. The free verse you come across is essentially narrative or storytelling (like a sort of prose with traces of a kind of ‘poetic’ adornment – which looks extremely feeble). Or there is another type of free verse that crops up now and again – the intellectual-rhetorical. I have observed that free verse (in any language, I think) is subject to one main danger: the element of musicality, which is inherent in poetry, is liable to dwindle – to the point of completely disappearing.”
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By: steve

steve — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:31:43 +0000

Yes. According to the paper I heard– and, again, I don’t read Russian, so I’m in no position to say– there ought to be more, and better, translation…
More on Aigi/Aygi, and on his recent death, here.
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By: Don Share

Don Share — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:22:06 +0000

Gennady Aygi (who died in 2006) can be read in Peter France’s translations in the just-published book, Field-Russia.
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