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17 - New Mexico Moderns

from Part III - To the Pacific Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2024

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Affiliation:
West Chester University, Pennsylvania
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Chapter 17 reconstructs Ilf and Petrov’s encounters with the members of the artist colonies in Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico. A letter of introduction from John Dos Passos to the poet Witter (Hal) Bynner gave the writers entrée into the community of New Mexico moderns, but they learned little about it. This was among the great lost opportunities of the trip. Bynner was a literary trickster of the sort that the two Soviet funnymen would have appreciated. Following the poet’s advice about where “to go to see Indians,” they chanced to meet Alexandra Fechin, the former wife of the Russian émigré painter Nicolai Fechin. They quickly classified her as another unhappy immigrant. That she moved in the same American modernist circles as “the famous American poet” Witter Bynner does not seem to have crossed their minds.

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Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip
, pp. 175 - 182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • New Mexico Moderns
  • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
  • Online publication: 18 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008914.021
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  • New Mexico Moderns
  • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
  • Online publication: 18 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008914.021
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  • New Mexico Moderns
  • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
  • Online publication: 18 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009008914.021
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