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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Eighty years later, it is astonishing and terrifying how much of what he saw still holds. If it's somewhat disconcerting (but interesting) to meet this poetic genius in the guise of a Communist haranguer, the three poems at the end alone are already worth the price of this beguiling, electric, neon-highlighted, righteous-minded, at times screamingly funny travelogue. no reviews | add a review
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In My Discovery of America, now in its first English translation, the leading poet of Revolutionary Russia offers a fascinating account of his travels in the U.S. Touring America, by way of an enforced sojourn in Mexico, Russian poet and indefatigable traveler Vladimir Mayakovsky was able to observe firsthand what he considered to be the model for Soviet development. Although ideologically at odds with much of American culture, and taking every opportunity to propound his own political beliefs en route, he delighted in the creativity and advancement he saw, believing it to be the future for mankind. His impressions, presented here in full for the first time in English, form an inspired collection of sketches, thoughts, jottings, and poems. Vladimir Mayakovsky was the foremost poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and one of the founders of Russia’s Futurism movement. No library descriptions found. |
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