The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
Published on 22. October 1975
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-253-20189-8 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-20189-8 (9780253201898)
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Content
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
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