Part 1

Last night I went to Moe's Books in Berkeley, on a spontaneous browsing and picked up this copy of "Mayakovsky," which I believe is the best translation of his work -- only recently superceded in places by the "Night Wraps at the Sky," edited by Michael Almereyda (Farrar, Sraus and Giroux; 2008). Marshall's Mayakovsky weighs in at 432 full pages of poems, prose, his commentary and others on Mayakovsky.

I first read Marshall's Mayakovsky's back in 1977 More...