Gennadiy Aygi (Russian: Геннадий Николаевич Айги) is a Chuvashian poet and a translator. Translations of his poetry are popular in Russia. Capital Cheboksary Area - total - % water 81st - 18,300 km² - N/A Population - Total - Density 41st - est. ...

He was born in 1934, in the Shaimurzino Village, Chuvashia (USSR) and started writing poetry in Chuvash language in 1958. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Childhood

 Yellow water in the stockyeard - far away and cold, a priori, and there, like drumsticks, alphabets without end of untamed children: oh! Broken Glass, Splinter and Straw, oh! Linear Scythian Winds, and like carnival scuffles in cellars, Paper and Paper and Paper; oh! ship's boys of straw, oh! damp of letters on fingers! HERE AND NOW - IT SEEMS TO CUT, BUT ONLY ME, NOT YOU! CUTTING - THROUGH PICTURES AND DRESSES AND CLAWS OF BIRDS! Cows' hooves are bright, unbelievable, like sailing into a bay, or like a dance, and then, like the pounding of rails, bright and wide and unsparing the embrace of those who were with us - hands, sisters, necks, mothers! let us breathe again, let us breathe, let us sleep again and pass not yesterday, today or tomorrow, o-o-o-o-o!- THROUGH CHILDREN'S SHOUTS, THROUGH DAMP OF LETTERS, THROUGH PICTURES AND DRESSES AND CLAWS OF BIRDS! 1960