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Volume 22: Night Wraps the Sky: Ethan Hawke and Clement Joseph and Val Vinokur |
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First broadcast June 16, 2008
Ethan Hawke, Clement Joseph and Val Vinokur reading from Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky was recorded May 28, 2008. One of today’s most prominent and exciting stage and film actors reads work from the leading poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period. Mayakovsky was one of the founders of Russian Futurism movement. Originally Mayakovsky planned to become an artist, and his early poems have strong painterly visions and sequences in many of his works recall film techniques. He was imprisoned on three occasions for subversive political activities, but being underage, he avoided transportation. During a period of solitary confinement in Butyrka prison in 1909, he began to write poetry, but his poems were confiscated. On his release from prison, he continued working within the socialist movement, and in 1911 he joined the Moscow Art School where he became acquainted with members of the Russian Futurist movement. He became a leading spokesman for the group Gileas.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 June 2008 )
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