Word: evtushenkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angel). Razin was a 17th century Cossack rake who divided his energies between pillaging the Volga Valley and leading whole cities in uprisings against the Czar. When he was finally captured and executed, his severed head, so goes the legend, continued to shout defiance and inspired further rebellions. Evgeny Evtushenko has put the story in poetry, and Shostakovich here sets the theme to unabashedly patriotic music. Sung in stirring form by Bass Vitaly Gromadsky...
...between the Russians and their rulers to that between Peter the Great and one of his mistresses. Having cut off the poor wench's head, the czar snatched it up again by the hair and then, according to eyewitnesses, kissed the bloody carrion passionately on the lips. Unlike Evtushenko, however, Voznesensky is not primarily a political poet. He is concerned with politics because he is concerned with the suffering it causes, but he clearly comprehends that not all suffering is politically produced. In one of his most dreadful and beautiful poems he describes...
Poetry, like steam, is made under pressure. In Russia the pressure of totalitarian control on a rapidly enlarging spirit of freedom keeps poetry hissing-hot. Evgeny Evtushenko first blew his stack back in 1957, and since then vigorous young poets have come geysering out of the masses with a frequency alarming to the Soviet regime...
...these belligerent young bards, 33-year-old Andrei Voznesensky, now rivals Evtushenko in popularity. His latest volume of verse ran up an advance sale of 100,000 in Russia, and his public readings have packed a Moscow sports palace with 14,000 bellowing poetry buffs. What is more, in these always adequate and sometimes redoubtable translations, Voznesensky (pronounced Voz-nes-yen-ski) considerably surpasses Evtushenko in poetic capacity. He is indisputably the most powerful lyric poet to appear in Russia since Pasternak...
...wrote Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko in Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing his nice, good, old pal John Steinbeck, whom he met during the author's 1963 visit to Russia. Evtushenko was scolding Steinbeck for not speaking out against the Vietnamese...