Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky
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From the time his first, futurist poems were published in 1912 until his suicide at the age of thirty-six, Vladimir Mayakovsky made theatrical appearances in his written work and perfected an iconoclastic voice James Schuyler called "the intimate yell." As the poet laureate of the Russian Revolution, Mayakovsky led a generation that staked everything on the notion that an artist could fuse a public and a private self. But by the time of Stalin's terror, the contradictions of the revolution caught up with him, and he ended in despair. A major influence on American poets of the twentieth century, Mayakovsky's work remains fascinating and urgent. Very few English translations have come close to capturing his lyric intensity, and a comprehensive volume of his writings has not been published in the past thirty years. In Night Wraps the Sky , the acclaimed filmmaker Michael Almereyda ( Hamlet , William Eggleston in the Real World ) presents Mayakovsky's key poems'e"translated by a new generation of Russian-American poets'e"alongside memoirs, artistic appreciations, and eyewitness accounts, written and pictorial, to create a full-length portrait of the man and the mythic era he came to embody.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0374281351
ISBN13:9780374281359
Release Date:April 2008
Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.24 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 8.5"
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