{"product_id":"mayakovsky","title":"Mayakovsky [Vladimir]","description":"432 pp. Vladimir Mayakovsky, in full Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, (born July 7 [July 19, New Style], 1893, Bagdadi, Georgia, Russian Empire - died April 14, 1930, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), the leading poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period. Mayakovsky, whose father died while Mayakovsky was young, moved to Moscow with his mother and sisters in 1906. At age 15 he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and was repeatedly jailed for subversive activity. He started to write poetry during solitary confinement in 1909. On his release he attended the Moscow Art School and joined, with David Burlyuk and a few others, the Russian Futurist group and soon became its leading spokesman. In 1912 the group published a manifesto, Poshchochina obshchestvennomu vkusu (\"A Slap in the Face of Public Taste\"), and Mayakovsky's poetry became conspicuously self-assertive and defiant in form and content. His poetic monodrama Vladimir Mayakovsky was performed in St. Petersburg in 1913. Between 1914 and 1916 Mayakovsky completed two major poems, \"Oblako v shtanakh\" (1915; \"A Cloud in Trousers\") and \"Fleyta pozvonochnik\" (written 1915, published 1916; \"The Backbone Flute\"). Both record a tragedy of unrequited love and express the author's discontent with the world in which he lived. Mayakovsky sought to \"depoetize\" poetry, adopting the language of the streets and using daring technical innovations. Above all, his poetry is declamatory, for mass audiences.","brand":"Hill and Wang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40807934951494,"sku":"2338985","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2338985.jpg?v=1699378383","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/mayakovsky","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}