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  Philip Levine  is a member of the remarkable generation of American poets born in the 1920s, which began with  Hayden Carruth ,  Marie Ponsot , and  Richard Wilbur  and includes  James Merrill ,  Carolyn Kizer ,  W. S. Merwin ,  James Wright ,  Galway Kinnell , and  Adrienne Rich . These poets are perhaps all the more notable in that each of their voices is unmistakable and unique

  Group photograph of some Russian Futurists, published in their manifesto  A Slap in the Face of Public Taste . Left to right:  Aleksei Kruchyonykh ,  Vladimir Burliuk ,  Vladimir Mayakovsky ,  David Burliuk , and  Benedikt Livshits .

                      Wassily Kamensky, 1917 painting by David Burliuk

  Alexei Kruchenykh