Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810129078)

James McGavran's new translation of Vladimir Maya­kovsky's poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist's voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Soviet regime, and because of his posthumous enshrinement by Stalin as "the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch," Mayakovsky has most often been interpreted--and translated--within a political context. McGavran's translations reveal a more nuanced poet who possessed a passion for word creation and lin­guistic manipulation. Mayakovsky's bombastic metaphors and formal 駘an shine through in these translations, and McGavran's commentary provides vital information on Mayakovsky, illuminating the poet's many references to the Russian literary canon, his contemporaries in art and culture, and Soviet figures and policies.

Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
ISBN-10: 0810129078
ISBN-13: 9780810129078
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2013
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.30w x 1.14d