Full Description
This selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career—from the earliest pre-revolutionary lyrics to a poem found in a notebook after his suicide. Splendid translations of the poems, with the Russian on a facing page, and a fresh, colloquial version of Mayakovsky's dramatic masterpiece, The Bedbug.
Contents
Introduction by Patricia Blake
Selected Poetry
I
The Cloud in Trousers
The Backbone Flute
To His Beloved Self, the Author Dedicates These Lines
An Extraordinary Adventure
Order No. 2 to the Army of the Arts
I Love
Brooklyn Bridge
Back Home!
Conversation with a Tax Collector about Poetry
Letter from Paris to Comrade Kostrov on the Nature of Love
At the Top of my Voice
Past One O'Clock...
The Bedbug
Notes
