Listen! Early Poems

by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872862550
• ISBN13: 9780872862555
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.9" x 6.2"