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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snows & Saints. In poetry, Evgeny Evtushenko, 30, is still the major voice, and has taken the brunt of the backlash that followed his first outspoken poems. But nowadays Evtushenko's reputation is being matched by that of Andrei Voznesensky, 30, more gifted and only slightly less flamboyant ex-student of architecture. Voznesensky's newest volume of verse will appear in the U.S. in translation this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russia's Writers: After Silence, Human Voices | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

After seven months in official disgrace, Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko was back in print last week. Spread over five pages of the Communist literary monthly Yunost (Youth) were four poems by the embattled hero of Russia's younger generation, along with a photograph of the rebel in bourgeois tie and jacket. There was some contrition in his latest lines, but there was defiance as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Man with Olena's Legs | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...Back Again at Zima Junction (Ev-tushenko's Siberian birthplace, which he recently revisited), Evtushenko concedes he was "unhorsed, honor nowhere near me" when he returned to Moscow from his reckless visit to Western Eu rope last winter. With a nod to the Kremlin, he admits: The "sharp criticism was useful in the final analysis." But then he adds acidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Man with Olena's Legs | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

Published in English at last is the unauthorized life story that got Russian Poet Evtushenko in so much trouble with the Kremlin bosses last winter. He comes out of it a highly subjective, idealistic Communist determined to revitalize the Revolution by healing Stalinist scars. That alone would have been enough to infuriate Moscow's angry old men. The poet is arrogantly vain and recklessly honest. "It is the bastards who are in danger, not I," he boasts. "What mattered were all those young eyes waiting expectantly" to hear the young Evtushenko read his flaming verses at mass meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, then Vodka | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

...Nowadays Evtushenko reads nothing in public. He was recently spotted in a Moscow gastronom buying vodka while his wife Galina pleaded: "You've had too much. It's bad for you. Come home." But drunk or sober, Evtushenko has yet to recant the verse that could well be his epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, then Vodka | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

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