| Listen! Early Poems Contributor(s): Mayakovsky, Vladimir (Author), Enzensberger, Maria (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0872862550 ISBN-13: 9780872862555 Publisher: City Lights Books OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1997 Annotation: "Nathaniel Mackey's poem is a brilliant renewal of and experiment with the language of our spiritual condition and a measure of what poetry gives in trust-'heart's/meat' and the rush of language to bear it." -Robin Blaser "Mackey's raspy rebus-like cultural resurfacings are both beautiful to read and worthy of repeated efforts at comprehension." -"Publishers Weekly" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Poetry | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 891.714 |
| LCCN: 91010330 |
| Series: City Lights Pocket Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 4.88" W x 6.24" (0.15 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: what a poet and the clear water is thick with bloody blows on its head. I embraced a cloud But when I soared it rained. --Frank O'Hara, "Mayakovsky" (1954) Mayakovsky's is one of the most compelling voices in twentieth-century Russian poetry. Born in 1893, he joined the Futurist movement in 1912 and soon established himself as one of Russia's major poets. In 1917, he rallied to the Russian Revolution and remained the indisputable leader of its artistic avant-garde until his suicide in 1930. Many of the poems in this book are translated for the first time into English. Accompanying the poems are rare drawings and lithographs by Mayakovsky and his circle, found in private collections of futurist books. |