Night Wraps the Sky
Writings by and About Mayakovsky
Almereyda, Michael (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 Stalins 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, Mayakovskys 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 Mayakovskys key poemstranslated by a new generation of Russian-American poetsalongside 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.
AUTHOR BIO
Michael Almereydas films include Nadja, Hamlet, William Eggleston in the Real World, and New Orleans Mon Amour. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, The Believer, and Film Comment.
BOOK REVIEWS
Mayakovsky read like a sailor shouting through a megaphone to another ship in a heavy sea. John Berger
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374281351
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374281359
Dewey Decimal: 891.71/42
Library of Congress: 2007046662
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 272
