The province of living sost., Comment., A. Mirzaev, foreword. M. Aizenberg. Aigi G.N.

Despite the numerous and very significant Russian and international awards (People's Poet of the Chuvash Republic; Laureate of the B. Pasternak prize, named after A. Belo, named after F. Petrarchi; Commander of the Order of Arts and Literature (France) and many others ), on books published in different countries of the world and translated into more than 50 languages, to two works that have been published in Russia 11 years ago, several nominations for the Nobel Prize - despite all this, Gennady Nikolaevich Aigi (1934-2006) continues To remain a poet, whom many know in his Fatherland, but few managed to really read it. Often you have to hear that his work is too complicated and hermetic. The book “The Province of the Living”, the commented publication of the chosen texts of the poet, is designed to disperse these prejudices and prove that G. N. Aigi’s poems are no more complicated than life itself, then terrifyingly complex, then lifting simple.