Wed 12 December 2012 ? 7.30pm
Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A
Tickets: £7, conc. £5
The Poetry of Velimir Khlebnikov
Alongside Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov was the most important of the Russian
Futurists. He has much in common with his contemporary, Guillaume
Apollinaire. Both were provincials, feted as geniuses when they moved
to their country?s capital. Both were close to the most important
visual artists of their time. Apollinaire was close to Picasso,
Khlebnikov to both Pavel Filonov and Vladimir Tatlin. And both
Apollinaire and Khlebnikov wrote apparently simpler, yet still more
startling work in their last years; their early technical
experimentation is linked to a willingness to follow thoughts and
feelings of all kinds wherever they may lead.
Robert Chandler will read from his translations of Khlebnikov?s verse,
to be included in an anthology of Russian poetry he is compiling for
Penguin Classics.
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