Longlisted for the 2018 Read Russia Prize. 'Vladimir Mayakovsky'
& Other Poems is the only single-volume selection in English to
fully represent the work of one of Modernism's vital literary
forces. The poems encompass Mayakovsky's pre-Revolutionary
surrealism as well as his exclamatory agitprop of the 1920s, by
which time he had become the pre-eminent Soviet poet. New
translations of key works are included alongside several poems that
have never been translated into English before, while an
introduction and notes provide helpful contexts and elucidations.
Screenplays, dramatic scripts and advertising slogans give a sense
of the unusual breadth and invention of Mayakovsky's project, and
his skill both as poet and propagandist. 'A poet needs to be good
at life as well', he writes; his job is to 'smooth brains with the
file of his tongue'. Womack's translations help to revise the
predominant image of Mayakovsky as a hectoring egoist, offering a
more nuanced impression of a poet whose concern was as much
comradeship and intimacy as politics and posterity: 'all of this -
do you want it? - I will abandon for one single tender human word.'
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