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Backbone Flute: Selected Poetry Of Vladimir Mayakovsky (English and Russian Edition) PDF

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Backbone Flute: Selected Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky Translated by Andrey Kneller Copyright Kneller, Boston, 2008 All rights reserved For Lena If we only have one outlet from Mayakovsky’s poems – into action, then Mayakovsky himself had only one outlet from his actions – into poems. From this comes their stunning physics, their, at times, their crushing muscularity, their physical impact. The whole warrior had to cram himself into verse. Hence, the verse’s torn dimensions. With Mayakovsky inside of it, the verse cracked, burst along the seams and ruptured where there were no seams. And the reader, at first naïve in his presumption that Mayakovsky was breaking solely for him (really breaking: like ice in spring!), had to soon concede that the Makakovsky’s breaking and rupturing was not just a rattle for the entertainment of the reader, but the only way of life – so as not to suffocate. Marina Tsvetaeva Table of Contents Poems About Petersburg Listen! A Violin - a Little Nervous Lilichka! Moonlit Night To His Own Beloved Self… Kindness to Horses Attitude to a Lady Heine-Imitation She loves me… Past One O’clock… A Cloud in Trousers Prologue Part I Part II Part III Part IV Backbone Flute Prologue Part I Part II Part III I Love Usually so As a kid As an adolescent My university Adulthood What became of it I call You Impossible It’s the same with me Outcome Кое что про Петербург Слезают слезы с крыши в трубы, к руке реки чертя полоски; а в неба свисшиеся губы воткнули каменные соски. И небу - стихши – ясно стало: туда, где моря блешет блюдо, сырой погонщик гнал устало Невы двугорбого верблюда. 1913 About Petersburg From rooftops, tears seeped into pipes and to the river’s arm drew streaks, while lips, suspended from the skies, continued sucking on stone teats. The sky, relaxed, could now see clearly: along the sea's resplendent channel, the sweating cameleer drove wearily The Neva’s1 lazy, two-humped camel. 1913 Послушайте! Послушайте! Ведь, если звезды зажигают - значит - это кому-нибудь нужно? Значит - кто-то хочет, чтобы они были? Значит - кто-то называет эти плевочки жемчужиной? И, надрываясь в метелях полуденной пыли, врывается к богу, боится, что опоздал, плачет, целует ему жилистую руку, просит - чтоб обязательно была звезда! - клянется - не перенесет эту беззвездную муку! А после ходит тревожный, но спокойный наружно. Говорит кому-то: "Ведь теперь тебе ничего? Не страшно? Да?!" Послушайте! Ведь, если звезды зажигают - значит - это кому-нибудь нужно? Значит - это необходимо, чтобы каждый вечер над крышами загоралась хоть одна звезда?! 1914

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Vladimir Mayakovsky (July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930) is one of the most recognized and celebrated poets of the Russian canon. One of the leaders of the Russian Futurism movement, which sought to capture the wonder of the fast-paced modern world and renounced the static art of the past, Mayakovsky co
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