Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, Volume I: Letters and Theoretical Writings

by Velimir Khlebnikov

Dubbed by his fellow Futurists the "King of Time," Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) spent his entire brief life searching for a new poetic language to express his convictions about the rhythm of history, the correspondence between human behavior and the "language of the stars." The result was a vast body of poetry and prose that has been called hermetic, incomprehensible, even deranged. Of all this tragic generation of Russian poets (including Blok,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674497910
• ISBN13: 9780674497917
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"