Listen! Early Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) - Softcover

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872862550 ISBN 13: 9780872862555

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

"what a poet

and the clear water is thick

with bloody blows on its head.

I embraced a cloud

But when I soared

it rained."

—Frank O’Hara, “Mayakovsky” (1954)

Mayakovsky's is one of the most compelling voices in twentieth-century Russian poetry. Born in 1893, he joined the Futurist movement in 1912 and soon established himself as one of Russia's major poets. In 1917, he rallied to the Russian Revolution and remained the indisputable leader of its artistic avant-garde until his suicide in 1930.

Many of the poems in this book are translated for the first time into English. Accompanying the poems are rare drawings and lithographs by Mayakovsky and his circle, found in private collections of futurist books.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

Review

1
And Yet...
Concern For Horses
Epilogue
Listen!
Mayakovsky
Mayakovsky
Prologue, From The Backbone-flute
Prologue, From Vladimir Mayakovsky. A Tragedy:
Take It!
To Shop Signs
What About You?
You!
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872862550
• ISBN 13: 9780872862555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64