{"product_id":"time-of-gratitude-by-gennady-aygi","title":"Time of Gratitude by Gennady Aygi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGennady Aygi’s longtime translator and friend \u003cstrong\u003ePeter France\u003c\/strong\u003e has compiled this moving collection of tributes dedicated to some of the writers and artists who sustained him while living in the Moscow “underground.” Written in a quiet intensely expressive poetic style, Aygi’s inventive essays blend autobiography with literary criticism, social commentary, nature writing, and enlightening homage. He addresses such literary masters as Pasternak, Kafka, Mayakovsky, Celan, and Tomas Tranströmer, along with other writers from the Russian avant-garde and his native Chuvashia. Related poems by Aygi are also threaded between the essays.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReminiscent of Mandelstam’s elliptical travel musings and Kafka’s intensely spiritual jottings in his notebooks, \u003cem\u003eTime of Gratitude\u003c\/em\u003e glows with the love and humanity of a sacred vocation. “These leaves of paper,\" Aygi says, 'are swept up by the whirlwind of festivity; everything whirls—from Earth to Heaven—and perhaps the Universe too begins to swirl. Everything flows together in the rainbow colors and lights of the infinite world of Poetry.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin House Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57273591431546,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/3406\/3009\/files\/9780811227193.jpg?v=1789553614","url":"https:\/\/shop.pushkinhouse.org\/products\/time-of-gratitude-by-gennady-aygi","provider":"Pushkin House Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}