Who is Velimir Khlebnikov

Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian: Велими́р Хле́бников, IPA: [vʲɪlʲɪˈmʲir ˈxlʲɛbnʲɪkəf]; 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1885 – 28 June 1922) was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it. Influential linguist Roman Jakobson hailed Khlebnikov as "the greatest world poet of our century".

Biography

Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov was born in 1885 in Malye Derbety, Astrakhan Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Kalmykia). He was of Russian, Armenian and Zaporozhian Cossack descent. His younger sister, Vera Khlebnikova, was an artist. He moved to Kazan, where he attended school. He then attend...
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Velimir Khlebnikov Poems

• Midnight Estate
  Midnight estate, Genghis Khanerate!
  Rustle, blue birches.
  Bright sunset, Zarathustrate!
  And you, blue sky, Mozartate! ...
• On This Day Of Sky-blue Bears
  On this day of sky-blue bears
  Running across quiet eyelashes,
  I divine beyond the blue waters
  In the cup of my eyes an order to wake. ...
• Invocation Of Laughter
  O, laugh, laughers!
  O, laugh out, laughers!
  You who laugh with laughs, you who laugh it up laughishly
  O, laugh out laugheringly ...
• Rus' You Are But A Kiss In The Frost
  Rus', you are but a kiss in the frost!
  The midnight roads are blueing.
  Lips joined in a blue lightning bolt,
  Clasped, he and she are blueing....
• Wind Is Song
  Wind is song
  Of whom and of what?
  Of the sword's longing
  To be the word....

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Comments about Velimir Khlebnikov

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• Tom73tiger: velimir khlebnikov, collected works, vol. 3: selected poems, tr. by paul schmidt
• Thomasmurphy__: 'thus will victory be accomplished over space, while victory over time will be attained by means of a movement and transmission of consciousness during a second rebirth.' —velimir khlebnikov

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