Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
About This Edition
I Myself
The Early Years: 1912–1916
Night
Morning
From Street to Street
Could You?
Me
Love
We
The Giant Hell of the City
Take That!
They Don’t Understand Anything
In a Motorcar
The Fop’s Blouse
Listen Up!
But Be That as It May
Petersburg Again
Mama and the Evening Killed by theGermans
Violin and a Bit Nervously
That’s How I Became a Dog
Lilichka! In Place of a Letter
To His Beloved Self the Author DedicatesThese Lines
The Years of Upheaval 1917–1920
Our March
Being Good to Horses
Ode to the Revolution
An Order to the Army of Art
It’s Too Early to Rejoice
The Poet Worker
An Extraordinary Adventure Which Befell Vladimir Mayakovsky in the Summer at a Dacha
The Soviet Years 1922–1930
All Meetinged Out
Schematic of Laughter
jubilee
Tamara and the Demon
A Farewell
Shallow Philosophy over the Depths
Broadway
The Brooklyn Bridge
To Sergei Yesenin
Conversation with a Taxman About Poetry
A Letter to Tatiana Yakovlev
Lines on a Soviet Passport
At the Top of My Voice
Unfinished Lyrics
The Suicide Note
Selected Long Poems
The Cloud in Pants
The Backbone Flute
150,000,000
I Love
The Flying Proletarian
Notes
Bibliography