Andrey Voznesensky

thumb|Andrey Voznesensky in 2008 Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky (May 12, 1933 – June 1, 2010) was one of the group of Russian poets who first came to notice during the Khrushchev era. He is often compared and contrasted with his friend Yevtushenko. Quotes Everything's sliding apart.Yet, "Long live everything!"For the art of creationIs older than the art of killing. "Lines to Robert Lowell"; translation by Louis Simpson and Vera Dunham, from Vera Dunham and Max Hayward (eds.) Nostalgia for the Present (New York: Doubleday, 1978) p. 111. It's shameful to spot a lie and not to name it,shameful to name it and then to shut your eyes,shameful to call a funeral a weddingand play the fool at funerals besides. Stanley Kunitz (trans.) Story Under Full Sail (New York: Doubleday, 1974) p. 20. Antiworlds, and the Fifth Ace Quotations are cited from Patricia Lake and Max Hayward (eds.) Antiworlds, and the Fifth Ace (New York: Basic Books, 1967), to which page-numbers also refer. I am Goyaof the bare field, by the enemy's beak gougedtill the craters of my eyes gapeI am griefI am the tongueof war, the embers of citieson the snows of the year 1941I am hunger. "I am Goya"; translated by Stanley Kunitz, p. 3. I have hurled westward the ashes of the uninvited guest! and hammered stars into the unforgetting sky – like nailsI am Goya. "I am Goya"; translated by Stanley Kunitz, p. 3. Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow. "Parabolic Ballad"; translated by W. H. Auden, p. 113. The urge to kill, like the urge to beget,Is blind and sinister. Its craving is setToday on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it canHowl the same way for the flesh of a man. "Hunting a Hare"; translated by W.H. Auden, p. 13. Criticism Akhmatova's seeming successor as the best living Russian poet is Voznesensky. His talent is dazzling. He has the gift of fresh, witty perception, works with unusual images and modern rhythms. His poetry is marvelously dynamic. Olga Carlisle in The New York Times, September 11, 1966. With good reason, Voznesensky is a hero to all those in the Soviet Union who want their poets to tell them the truth. But at the risk of his career, freedom, and perhaps even his life, he has never been able to do much more than drop hints. Clive James From the Land of Shadows (London: Picador, 1983) p. 222. External links Category:Poets from Russia Category:Architects from Russia Category:People from Moscow Category:1933 births Category:2010 deaths