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Vladimir Mayakovsky and other poems / Vladimir Mayakovsky ; translated & edited by James Womack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930.
- Series:
- Fyfield books
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930--Translations into English.
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir.
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 239 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet, 2016.
- Summary:
- 'Vladimir Mayakovsky' & Other Poems is the only single-volume selection in English to fully represent the work of one of Modernism's vital literary forces. The poems encompass Mayakovsky's pre-Revolutionary surrealism as well as his exclamatory agitprop of the 1920s, by which time he had become the pre-eminent Soviet poet. New translations of key works are included alongside several poems that have never been translated into English before, while an introduction and notes provide helpful contexts and elucidations. Screenplays, dramatic scripts and advertising slogans give a sense of the unusual breadth and invention of Mayakovsky's project, and his skill both as poet and propagandist. 'A poet needs to be good at life as well', he writes; his job is to 'smooth brains with the file of his tongue'. Womack's translations help to revise the predominant image of Mayakovsky as a hectoring egoist, offering a more nuanced impression of a poet whose concern was as much comradeship and intimacy as politics and posterity: 'all of this - do you want it? -I will abandon for one single tender human word.' Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Night 3
- Morning 3
- Port 5
- Street Scene 5
- Could You? 6
- Me 6
- Exhausted Portrait of Spring 9
- In Tiredness 10
- Love 10
- We 11
- Cries and Whispers 12
- Up Yours! 12
- They Just Don't Get It 13
- In a Car 14
- Vladimir Mayakovsky 15
- War Is Declared 34
- Mother and the Evening the Germans Killed 35
- Cloud in Trousers 37
- I and Napoleon 59
- You! 62
- And That's How I Became a Dog 63
- Hey! 64
- To Lily, Instead of a Letter 66
- I'm Bored 68
- Going Cheap 70
- A Moonlit Night 72
- To His Own Self, with Affection, the Author Dedicates These Lines 73
- To Russia 75
- My Brother Writers 76
- The Revolution 78
- How Red Is Your Riding Hood? 84
- Eat Your Pineapple 85
- Our March 85
- Spring 86
- How to Treat Horses 86
- Ode to the Revolution 88
- Battle-Order to the Army of Art 89
- The Poet Worker 91
- Left March 92
- Stunning Facts 94
- Vladimir Rich! 95
- Vladimir Mayakovsky Rented a Dacha One Summer; You Won't Believe What Happened Next 97
- À la Heine 100
- Grief 100
- A Story about How a Little Old Lady Spoke about Vrangel without Understanding Anything 101
- About the Filth 105
- All Meetinged Out 107
- Bastards! 109
- The Bureaucratiad 114
- I Love 119
- Worker Correspondent 128
- A Universal Answer 130
- Baku 133
- Moscow-Konigsberg 135
- Mad about the Movies 139
- Be Prepared 142
- Kiev 143
- Two Berlins 147
- Jubilee 149
- Hooliganish Stuff 159
- Brooklyn Bridge 161
- To Sergei Yesenin 165
- How's It Going? 171
- Conversation with the Taxman about Poetry 189
- To Comrade Nette 199
- A Letter from the Writer Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky to the Writer Aleksei Maksimovich Gorky 202
- Jew 209
- Beer and Socialism 214
- Letter to Tatiana Yakovleva 216
- 'Productivity... ' 219
- Monte Carlo 220
- Lines on the Soviet Passport 223
- I'm Happy! 227
- The Witching Hour... 230.
- ISBN:
- 9781784102920
- 178410292X
- OCLC:
- 956351890
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