Birds, Beasts and a World Made New

AvVelimir Khlebnikov,Guillaume Apollinaire

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler

Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never met, but they have much in common. Both inventive luminaries of Modernism, they played a central role in the avant-garde movements of their time and worked closely with the most important visual artists around them. Written with exhilarating freedom and creativity, their verse has continued to inspire poets to the present day.

Acclaimed translator and poet Robert Chandler offers a unique selection from both poets' work in vivid new translations. Showcasing their most direct, heartfelt verse alongside their form-breaking innovations, this volume reveals the deep insight with which these two poets wrote about love, friendship, art, revolution, famine and war.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-15
Mått:129 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt:242 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pushkin Classics
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Pushkin Press
ISBN:9781782279921
Översättare:Chandler, Robert

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Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) was a Russian poet and playwright who played an important role in the Russian Futurist movement. Over his short career, he experimented freely with form and language, even inventing his own language, and is now recognized as one of the major Russian poets of his era.Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) was a French poet, novelist and critic of Polish descent. He became a leading figure of the Modernist avant-garde, influencing the development of Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, and his work is celebrated for its formal innovation.

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A wonderful parallel anthology and introduction to two poets, both so much more. They are the short-lived, playful, and visionary greats of Modernism: the Frenchman Guillaume Apollinaire and the Russian Velimir Khlebnikov. The translations are splendid and full of life, the context brisk, plain and simply sketched in. This is a book for discovery, for pleasure and delight

Innehållsförteckning

CONTENTSForewordIntroductionPart One: Birds and AnimalsPart Two: ArtPart Three: Other poems, mostly Pre-WarPart Four: War, Revolution, Civil War and FaminePart Five: Fate, History and NumbersPart Six: Last ThingsPart Seven: Memoirs by OthersAppendixChronologyFurther ReadingAcknowledgments