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Title: Listen!: Early Poems, 1913-1918 (Pocket Poets Series, No 47) by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Maria Enzberger ISBN: 0-87286-255-0 Publisher: City Lights Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A voice both mystical and earthy
Comment: "Listen! Early Poems 1913-1918," by Vladimir Mayakovsky, features poems translated into English by Maria Enzensberger. Also included is a foreword by Elaine Feinstein. This 63-page book has been published as Pocket Poets Series No. 47.
This book was my introduction to the voice of Russian poet Mayakovsky (1893-1930). In her interesting introduction translator Enzensberger puts his work in context. She includes a humorous and charming story about the beginning of his poetic career, and also discusses his relationship to the futurist movement. The book reproduces a rich selection of visual materials: photos, lithographs, drawings, and even some of Mayakovsky's own handwritten notes.
Mayakovsky's poetry is fascinating. His voice is full of absurdism and playful humor. Yet the poetry is also touched by a tragic vision; his voice sounds genuinely compassionate towards beings (both human and non-human) that are suffering. The poems raise lofty theological issues, yet remain grounded in very concrete and specific worldly things: smoked sardines, manure, galoshes, etc. A number of pieces deal with poetry itself.
Mayakovsky's language, as rendered into English by Enzensberger, has a wonderfully muscular, meaty, yet musical quality--truly poetry that should be read aloud. At times Mayakovsky's vision and voice reminded me of those of Pablo Neruda and Walt Whitman, whom I see as his poetic soul brothers. At his best, Mayakovsky has a poetic voice that is graced with prophecy and magic.
Rating: 3
Summary: A good gift for a friend
Comment: A classy, stylish little book, with Russian and transliterated English printed on facing pages. Some of Mayakovsky's art, too, in black and white. I don't think it has the scope or selection you would want for a collection, but it's a really fine volume for a gift, for something small, for a little dose of one of 'the' Russian poets of the 20th century.
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Title: The Bedbug and Selected Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky ISBN: 0253201896 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1975 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Osip Mandelstam: Fifty Poems by Osip Mandelstam ISBN: 0892550066 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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