Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky
1933-

Poems in this Collection

The Swimmer/Пловец
An Artist and His Model/Художник и модель
Farewell to the Mike/Прощанье с микрофоном
Cyclamen/Цикламена
Idler/Зевака
Goya/Гойя
Porcupines of many sizes.../Тьма ежей любого роста

Timeline for A. A. Voznesensky

 

 
 
 
Voznesensky giving a talk at the Writers Congress in 1959, with Khrushchev standing in the background
 
Voznesensky and Allen Ginsberg
 
Voznesensky meeting with Ronald Reagan

 

1933
Born in Moscow, spent much of his youth in town of Vladimir

1941-4
Lives with mother in Kurgan (Urals)

1957
Graduates from Moscow Institute of Architecture; Pasternak encourages him to pursue writing

1958
Gives poetry reading with Evtushenko in Lenin Stadium

1959
Receives attention for first published verses "Masters" and "Goya"

1960
Publishes first collections Parabola and Mosaic, in which all his poetic tropes are evident - polymetric lines, graphic verse, inappropriate rhymes and odd metaphors

1962
Publishes collection 40 Lyric Digressions from the Poem "Triangular Pear"

1963
Khrushchev denounces him as "bourgeois formalist"

1964
Publishes collection Antiworlds

1966
Publishes Heart of Achilles

1967
Becomes a member of the Praesidium of the USSR Writers Union

1970
Publishes Shadow of Sound

1972
Publishes the prose poetry A Look

1975
Publishes Violoncello Oak Leaf

1979
Awarded the State Prize for Poetry; participates in official literary almanac Metropol

1983
Three volume collection of his works appears in Soviet Union


 

 

 


Voznesensky reading his poems to the masses

 

 

 


Cover of Antiworlds