Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky

by Vladimir Mayakovsky

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374281351
• ISBN13: 9780374281359
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.5"