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Night Wraps the Sky by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Michael Almereyda (Hardcover, 2008)

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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 translated by a new generation of Russian-American poets 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN-10
0374281351
ISBN-13
9780374281359
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95818971

Product Key Features

Book Title
Night Wraps the Sky
Author
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Michael Almereyda
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Literary Criticism
Publication Year
2008

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Title_Author
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Michael Almereyda
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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