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'Vladimir Mayakovsky' and other poems / Vladimir Mayakovsky ; translated & edited by James Womack.
Author
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 1893-1930
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Uniform title
Poems.
Selections.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Manchester : Carcanet Press LTD, 2016.
©2016
Description
xv, 239 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PG3476.M3 A2 2016
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Subject(s)
Russian poetry
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Mayakovsky, Vladimir 1893-1930
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Translations into English
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Editor
Womack, James William, 1979-
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Translator
Womack, James William, 1979-
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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Getty AAT genre
poetry
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Series
Fyfield books
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Summary note
'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.' -- from back cover.
Notes
Includes index.
Language note
Translated from the Russian.
Contents
Night
Morning
Port
Street scene
Could you?
Me
Exhausted portrait of Spring
In tiredness
Love
We
Cries and whispers
Up yours!
They just don't get it
In a car
Valdimir Mayakovsky
War is declared
Mother and the evening the Germans killed
Cloud in trousers
I and Napoleon
You!
And that's how I became a dog
Hey!
To Lily, instead of a letter
I'm bored
Going cheap
A moonlit night
To his own self, with affection, the author dedicates these lines
To Russia
My borther writes
The revolution
How red is your riding hood?
Eat your pineapple
Our march
Spring
How to treat horses
Ode to the revolution
Battle-order to the army of art
The poet worker
Left march
Stunning facts
Vladimir Ilich!
Vladimir Mayakovsky rented a Dacha one summer; you won't believe what happened next
À la Heine
Grief
A story about how a little old lady spoke about Vrangel without understanding anything
About the filth
All meetinged out
Bastards!
The bureaucratiad
I love
Worker correspondent
A universal answer
Baku
Moscow-Königsberg
Mad about the movies
Be prepared
Kiev
Two Berlins
Jubilee
Hooliganish stuff
Brooklyn bridge
To Sergei Yesenin
How's it going?
Conversation with the taxman about poetry
To Comrade Nette
A letter from the writer Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky to the writer Aleksei Maksimovich Gorky
Jew
Beer and socialism
Letter to Tatiana Yakovleva
''Productivity ... '
Monte Carlo
Lines on the Soviet passport
I'm happy!
The witching hour ...
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ISBN
9781784102920
178410292X
OCLC
956351890
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