The Bedbug and Selected Poetry [Paperback]

This selection of Mayakovskys work covers his entire careerfrom 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 Mayakovskys 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 OClock...

The Bedbug

Notes