Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky – $395
by rgonzalezr
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 […]
Categories: Biografía, Memorias, Poesía • Tags: 2008, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Futurism, Mayakovsky, Poesía, Poetry, Russia, Russian, stalin