{"product_id":"the-king-of-time-selected-writings-of-the-russian-futurian-9780674505162","title":"The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian","description":"\u003cp\u003eVelimir Khlebnikov  who died in 1922 at the age of thirty-six  is one of the great  untranslated Russian poets of this century. Hailed by his contemporaries and by later writers and scholars as the creative genius behind the Russian Futurist movement  Khlebnikov is famous more for his inaccessibility than for the excellence of what he actually produced. Even Russians are generally baffled by him.  Now  in a powerful American rendition  we are given access to the strange and beautiful world of Khlebnikov  the words wild highwayman. Trained in the natural sciences and mathematics and by temperament an artist  Khlebnikov thought he had discovered the Laws of Time and Tables of Destiny  by which enlightened humans could live in harmony with themselves and with nature. He coined the terms Futurian and Presidents of Planet Earth for himself and his friends  and he devoted all of his short  restless life to finding a language appropriate to his vision. Experiments with words became magical paths to a reinvigorated future  and produced some of the most extraordinary poems in the Russian language.  These goals and researches were variously embodied as well in stories  plays  and visionary essays in which Khlebnikov advances architectural plans for mobile cities  a new alphabet based on universal meanings of sounds  and communication by way of vast television networks. The result is poetry of startling originality  modernity  and linguistic virtuositya true challenge to translators and one that has been met brilliantly here by Paul Schmidt and Charlotte Douglas.  The King of Time is a representative sampling of Khlebnikovs writings  taken from the translation of his complete works prepared under the auspices of the Dia Art Foundation. It includes many pieces  among them the full text of the astounding poem-play Zangezi  never before translated. General readers will be introduced to the legendary Khlebnikov  and cognoscenti will applaud the inventiveness of the rendering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666319040565,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674505166","price":59.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674505162.jpg?v=1782427998","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-king-of-time-selected-writings-of-the-russian-futurian-9780674505162","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}