Books by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Complete Book Reviews
Love is the Heart of Everything: Correspondence Between Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, 1915-1930
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Author Grove/Atlantic $0 (294p) ISBN 978-0-394-55569-0
When Mayakovsky, poet of the Soviet revolution, fell in love with Lili Brik, he immediately moved into a hotel room to be near her and her husband Osip. Soon the three were living togetheran experiment in living that defied Bolshevik standards of...
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Vladimir Mayakovsky, Author, Michael Almereyda, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-28135-9
The volatile young poet rose to prominence as a coauthor of the Russian Futurist manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste in 1912; the next five years saw the explosive sexual boasting and the fragmentary lines of such poems as A Cloud in Pants,
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