The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
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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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.
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
