Full Description
Published in 1911, and then expanded and republished in 1922, Mosquito consists of 36 poems ranging in lengths from six lines to over one hundred and fifty. It contains Akhmet Baitursynov's most overtly political poems, aimed at the yet-to-exist Kazakh nation: to his people, to his kin, and to the many future sons and daughters of Kazakhstan. His intentions with the collection are clear, as we see in the opening lines of the poem "Author's Note": to buzz around the sleeping Kazakh populace in hopes of awakening them with a rallying cry.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Translator's Note
References
Mosquito
Author's Note
A Writer's Joy
To My Kin
From Zhadovskaya
Khozha Nasr's Cunning
Invitation to Study
Năbek's Horse
The Unlucky Peasant
Geese
The Ass and the Owl
Kazakhness
Kazakh Culture
Letter to a Friend
Pieces, Gathered
Letter to My Mother
My Prayer
Words of the Captive
A Farmer of Humanity
To the Blue Asses
To the City of Qa-------
To My People
To Calm
To Mrs. N. K.
To My Little Brother Poet
Letter From My Brother-in-Law, I. B.
Reply to a Letter
Science
From Nadson
Garden
Pushkin's Voltaire
Horse
The Wise Alek and Death
The Fisherman and the Fish
The Golden Rooster
From Lermontov
