Paper-Thin Skin

By: Aigerim Tazhi, J. Kates (Translator)

Paperback | 21 May 2019

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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? Here's 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. ,

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Translator is an award-winning poet and translator of Russian, French and Latin American literature.

Industry Reviews

"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

"...[Tazhi's] 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 Tazhi's 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

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