Literature of the Americas Literature of the Americas 2541-7894 2542-243X IWL RAS Articles American Context of the Russian Proletarian Poetry in the USA (1920s): Yakov Tarle 2017 Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The article explores how an American context is represented in the poetry of YakovThe article explores how an American context is represented in the poetry of YakovTarle, one of the Russian “proletarian” émigré poets from the poetical circle ofDavid Burliuk, the leader of “proletarian writers and painters in North America”.Tarle took part in cultural life in New York, and the article traces some ways of representingthis cultural experience in his poems (for example, his contacts with NikolaiiEvreinov), examines Tarle’s attitude to the American poetry, among others to JohnReed and Carl Sandburg. Creating the industrial images of Chicago and New YorkTarle follows the American poets , but in contrast to them emphasizes the motives ofsocial protests and the global hegemony of proletariat. Being under the influence ofBurliuk’s poetic school Tarle uses some avant-garde techniques in his poetry. Some ofthem are analyzed in the article. 1. Alland, A. Pis'ma k Burliuku Davidu Davidovichu. 1930–1931. New York. OR RGB, fund 372 D.D. Burliuk papers, box 10, folder 3. 2. Bezymenskii, A.I. Izbrannye proizvedeniia: 2 vols. Vol. 1: “Stikhotvoreniia. Poemy. Komediia v stikhakh ‘Vystrel’.” Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya Literatura publ., 1989. 3. Burliuk, D.D. Pis'ma Erikhu Fedorovichu Gollerbakhu. 1929–1930. OR RNB, fund 207, folder 18. 4. Dzhurova, T.S. Kontseptsiia teatral'nosti v tvorchestve N.N. Evreinova. Saint-Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo SPbGATI Publ., 2010. 5. Evreinov, N.N. Demon teatral'nosti, comp., ed., comm. A.Yu. Zubkov, V.I. Maksimov. Moscow; Saint-Petersburg: Letnii sad publ., 2002. 6. Evreinov, N.N. Pis'ma k Burliuku Davidu Davidovichu. 1927–1931. Paris. OR RGB, fund 372 D.D. Burliuk papers, box 11, folder 17. 7. Lehman, D.W. John Reed and the Writing of Revolution. Atnens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2002. 8. Kamenskii, V.V. Pis'ma Evreinova N.N. Kamenskomu V.V. 1914–1934 gg. RGALI, fund 1497, box 1, folder 193. 9. Kopelevich-Luganov, L.I. “Netochnosti ‘opravdyvaniia’ B.S. Glagolina.” Rabis 49 (91) (1927): 7. 10. Magidov, R. Pis'ma k Burliuku D.D. 1930. 1932. OR RGB, fund 372 D.D. Burliuk papers, box 13, folder 28. 11. Reed, J. Izbrannye proizvedeniia. Moscow: Izd-vo inostrannoi literatury publ., 1957. 12. Reed, J. “Proud New York.” Poetry: A Magazine of Verse 1912–22, ed. by Harriet Monroe. Chicago, 1912–22. Online at: http://www.bartleby.com/300/1547.html 13. Ryzhenkov, V.Yu. Nikolai Nikolaevich Evreinov v kul'turnoi zhizni Rossii i zarubezh'ia. Diss. … kand. ist. nauk. Saint Petersburg, 2011. 14. Severianin, I. Usnuvshie vesny. Kritika. Memuary. Skitaniia. Moscow: Lomonosov Publ., 2014. 15. Tarle, Ya. Piony mezh neboskrebov. New York; Chicago: Spartacus Publ. House, 1929. 16. Tarle, Ya. Stikhi. New York: Literaturny tsekh pri studii Molodogo teatra publ., 1926. 17. Sandburg, C. Chicago Poems. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. Online at: http://www.bartleby.com/165/ 18. Sandburg, С. Smoke and Steel. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Online at: http://www.bartleby.com/231/ 19. Yannella, Ph. The Other Carl Sandburg. Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi. 1996.