Paper-Thin Skin by Aigerim Tazhi (English) Paperback Book

Description: Paper-Thin Skin by Aigerim Tazhi, J. Kates One of the first Kazakhstani women poets to gain international attention, Tazhi offers incisive and intimate observations in these seemingly spare poems that "pour out a little from an overflowing heart." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Brings a young rising woman poet from Kazakhstan, who writes in Russian, to English readers for the first time;Bilingual (Russian and English) poems on facing pages;Russia is always in the news, but what of Kazakhstan? Heres a fresh, new, voice from a place few people know about, the ninth largest country in the world;Recent Zephyr Russian and Eastern European titles have won or been short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award; the PEN USA Poetry in Translation Award, the Griffin International Poetry Prize; the National Translation Award; the Best Translated Book Award;Poems have appeared in the literary journals and websites: The Atlanta Review, The Colorado Review, Chtenia, Cyphers, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, The St. Petersburg Review, Stand, Two Lines, and Words Without Borders. ,;Translator is an award-winning poet and translator of Russian, French and Latin American literature. Author Biography Aigerim Tazhi ( ) is one of the best-known contemporary Kazakh poets. She is the author of--(THEO-LOG-IAN, which could also be read as GOD O WORDS) (Musagetes, Kazakhstan, 2004) and the bilingual poetry book /Paper-Thin Skin(Russian-English, Zephyr Press, USA, 2019, translated by J. Kates). Tazhi won the International Literary Steps Prize in Poetry in 2003; in 2011, she was a finalist for the International Debut Prize in Poetry; in 2019, she was included in the prize list of the International Literary Poetry Award and named a finalist of the International Literary Voloshin Contest. Her work has been featured in many prominent literary magazines and anthologies; and her poems have been translated into English, French, Dutch, Polish, German, Armenian, Uzbek and other languages. In 2009 Tazhi created a continuing project of literary installations and performances, Visible Poetry. She lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan.J. Kates is a poet, literary translator and co-director of Zephyr Press. The author of several collections of his own poetry, he is also the translator of more than a dozen books by Russian and French poets, including Tatiana Shcherbina, Mikhail Aizenberg, Mikhail Yeryomin, Aleksey Porvin, Jean-Pierre Rosnay, and Sergey Stratanovsky. He co-translated four books of Latin American poetry, was the translation editor ofContemporary Russian Poetry,and was the editor ofIn the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era.He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation, and a Kpyl Translation Prize. Table of Contents Translators Introduction: Aigerim Tazhis Temple of Words1Walking like a camelWhere is it, where is what moves forward?The trees know it is early to wake up.In the depth of a mirror mottled with stains The wind makes a measured noise.There is a certain rhythm in anxiety.Summer, organize a soundless holiday with a forest at night.Hidden behind a gray facade,Ivy. I gathered it on the river bank.In the house a windowRain ran over a keyboard of leaves.I strain to listen for an imagined world: Hands reach out. You hide yourself deep down.A tree, keeping in balance,Oh, why, from where to whereA purple window. A yellow one.After I caught a conversation in the park,When the narrator nods off on a mountain of books,A runner with a flashlight in his headWindows opening to the eastIn open maps the future . . . and somewhere everyday life turned into a miracleI want to float downstream 2A warm center floats up from the skin.Probably a god is like a dying personPeople carry dirt under their nails,Dont take one last breath — nothing to breathe here. Earth, dying on the eve of winter, Someone among the branches It seems the more room Over the heads of shriveled applesMusic in the heart gnawing and gnawing.You are standing on the edge of a cloud,The sea has enormous lungsIt can take time to choose a beautiful crabUnderneath, in a German-chocolate boxHeavier than ageWrap up warm — A morning crossroads. Tea freezes in a little cup.On the overhang of the entranceThe natives hide a yellow cobra in baskets of bananas,Tomorrow twenty above Where is the tail of the fishA violet sucks up from a saucer yesterdays sea filtered through the earth. Somebody died.Sleepless in Tibet just like those here 3The aircraft of a dragonfly over the river.The old tree has young leaves.Slowly revealing itselfHead on shoulders. A shroud on the head. The sky is a closed window.To pour out a little from an overflowing heart On the road people seem eternalLike a face in a clinic an angel in whiteA step away from the epicenter. An unlit courtyard.The morning is pecked by birdsWind in the room. rainTrying other peoples heads A grim game on the rim.In a sandbox under the playground mushroom When the memory is not the same and hands are not the sameFrom resurrection to sundayA flock of crows from the shores of the horizonThis city is flooded in a radiant glowFirst a flood and finally a fly-boyThe house-ark sheets swelled like sailsGodPushed away from an old shipWhen the body dies, eagles and fish dine well, First at a call a large lionsNotesBiographical Notes Review "For a debut poetry collection, Aigerim Tazhis Paper-Thin Skin is a work of stunning originality." — Elmira Elvazova, Massachusetts Review " This is a beautifully translated volume that neither exoticizes nor renders out the joy of reading poetry grounded in another place and language." — Alison Mandaville, World Literature Today"…[Tazhis] poetry is enjoyable for the pure inventiveness of her images and observations. The collection is riddled with vivid, often intriguing images and witty one liners." — Belinda Cooke, Poetry Salzburg Review"Nevertheless, Central Asian literature in English translation remains rare and since Tazhis current home of Almaty is equidistant between the capitals of Russia and China, a leading Kazakh poet, for such Tazhi evidently is, deserves to be read as much to her East as to her West. — Peter Gordon, Asian Review of Books"A beautiful bilingual book, produced with care and attention to white space around the poems, Paper-Thin Skin speaks to layers of loss–from personal and private to the loss of the country (I read these poems in the post-Soviet context) to climate change and the loss of habitats." — Olga Zilberbourg, Punctured Lines Promotional Advance galleys to Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, NPR;Review and feature article campaign to 40-50 publications and websites, including poetry, Slavic/Eastern European, womens and mainstream;Book will be launched in National Poetry Month, with frequent social media updates about the author, the book, the translator and the rising importance of literature in translation;Collaborate with Kazakh Literature and Culture Centers in New York and Washington, DC for possible reading tour;Featured title at AWP, Boston Book Fair, Brooklyn Book Festival, ATSEEL (Slavic conference), ALTA;Eblasts to creative writing, Slavic/Eastern European Studies departments;Social media campaign on FaceBook and Twitter;Potential core text for Slavic Studies, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing courses. Long Description Brings a young rising woman poet from Kazakhstan, who writes in Russian, to English readers for the first time; Bilingual (Russian and English) poems on facing pages; Russia is always in the news, but what of Kazakhstan? Heres a fresh, new, voice from a place few people know about, the ninth largest country in the world; Recent Zephyr Russian and Eastern European titles have won or been short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award; the PEN USA Poetry in Translation Award, the Griffin International Poetry Prize; the National Translation Award; the Best Translated Book Award; Poems have appeared in the literary journals and websites: The Atlanta Review, The Colorado Review, Chtenia, Cyphers, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, The St. Petersburg Review, Stand, Two Lines, and Words Without Borders. , ; Translator is an award-winning poet and translator of Russian, French and Latin American literature. Review Quote "For a debut poetry collection, Aigerim Tazhi s Paper-Thin Skin is a work of stunning originality." -- Elmira Elvazova, Massachusetts Review " This is a beautifully translated volume that neither exoticizes nor renders out the joy of reading poetry grounded in another place and language." -- Alison Mandaville, World Literature Today "...[Tazhis] poetry is enjoyable for the pure inventiveness of her images and observations. The collection is riddled with vivid, often intriguing images and witty one liners." -- Belinda Cooke, Poetry Salzburg Review "Nevertheless, Central Asian literature in English translation remains rare and since Tazhis current home of Almaty is equidistant between the capitals of Russia and China, a leading Kazakh poet, for such Tazhi evidently is, deserves to be read as much to her East as to her West. -- Peter Gordon, Asian Review of Books "A beautiful bilingual book, produced with care and attention to white space around the poems, Paper-Thin Skin speaks to layers of loss-from personal and private to the loss of the country (I read these poems in the post-Soviet context) to climate change and the loss of habitats." -- Olga Zilberbourg, Punctured Lines Excerpt from Book (untitled) Earth, dying on the eve of winter, responds to the touch like a cold corpse. Over a cup of warm tea sleepy people remember in leisurely conversation those who have gone. Outside the windows the dead step softly along old tracks in the creaking snow, they warm themselves in the heart of the quaint town, clench their frozen eyelids. (untitled) Where is the tail of the fish And where its head? It rots from there If everything is cut away. But the fish Rots With a huge swollen belly Where Jonah lives. He weaves nets, he sews sails, Hat pulled down over his eyes. (untitled) Heavier than age Morning has us By the throat. Why do you birds rise so early? Birds have tiny tongues A bird is a bell. Dark people in white clothing Creep around town. Heaven, heaven, pour into their ears A song of tin. Let them hear only the sea, The old sea, the new sea. While we keep on crying out Crying out our grief. (untitled) On the road people seem eternal the manystarred sky flies by like an old film frame-by-frame they come toward you theyre born and they die. snow falls between the windshield wipers and the village in which the princess lives happily with the shepherd in their eyes desire turns into a red light this one car among others around seems unknown but even it leaves a track of its passing (untitled) slowly revealing itself the shore leads to the sun into a black and quiet town soot on the temple of God in the air people moan -- their weeping is a pinch of salt fish drown in the air, fall under a cats paw the city burns but the sea will fill it with life one day and deep down a conch a crayfish and a forgotten anchor Description for Sales People Brings a young rising woman poet from Kazakhstan, who writes in Russian, to English readers for the first time; Bilingual (Russian and English) poems on facing pages; Russia is always in the news, but what of Kazakhstan? Heres a fresh, new, voice from a place few people know about, the ninth largest country in the world; Recent Zephyr Russian and Eastern European titles have won or been short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award; the PEN USA Poetry in Translation Award, the Griffin International Poetry Prize; the National Translation Award; the Best Translated Book Award; Poems have appeared in the literary journals and websites: The Atlanta Review, The Colorado Review, Chtenia, Cyphers, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, The St. Petersburg Review, Stand, Two Lines, and Words Without Borders. ,; Translator is an award-winning poet and translator of Russian, French and Latin American literature. Details ISBN1938890906 Author J. Kates Short Title PAPER-THIN SKIN Pages 160 Publisher Zephyr Press Series In the Grip of Strange Thoughts Language English Translator J. Kates ISBN-10 1938890906 ISBN-13 9781938890901 Format Paperback Year 2019 Imprint Zephyr Press Place of Publication Massachusetts Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2019-07-04 US Release Date 2019-07-04 UK Release Date 2019-07-04 Publication Date 2019-07-04 DEWEY 891.715 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-08-26 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137998721;

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