Into the Snow

Into the Snow will be published to coincide with a festival of translation in Seattle in November that Wave Books is organizing to kick off the release of our new translations. Into the Snow is very teachable, and we plan to promote and encourage course adoption by taking advantage of the excitement building around the many possibilities of teaching translation, as well as the unique space Aygi's poetry occupies as a text that illuminates what is possible in contemporary American poetry. We will work for features and excerpts in such literary journals as languagehat, Jacket, The Drunken Boat, Rain Taxi, BOMBlog, The Believer, and Bookslut, among others. We will promote this title through social media like Facebook & twitter and on the author's and translators' pages on our website.

It's possible to be an experimental humanist.Gennady Aygi's poems are as pleasurable for the uniqueness and clarity of their crafting as they are for the spirit they express. and -- the fields -- rise -- into the sky from each star -- there is -- a course to every other -- star Gennady Aygi (1934--2006) is regarded as the Chuvash national poet. Relatively unpublished until the 1980s in the Soviet Union, he has been celebrated abroad, nominated for the Nobel Prize on multiple occasions, and translated into more than twenty languages. Sarah Valentine is a poet and scholar who teaches at the University of California Riverside. This is her first book of translations.