Selected Poems

by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Book Overview

James McGavran's new translation of Vladimir Maya­kovsky's poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist's voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Soviet regime, and because of his posthumous enshrinement by Stalin as "the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch," Mayakovsky has most often been interpreted--and translated--within a political context. McGavran's translations reveal a more nuanced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810129078
• ISBN13: 9780810129078
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.7"