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Vladimir Mayakovsky — Fifteen Poems (1912–1913)
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Vladimir Mayakovsky — Fifteen Poems (1912–1913)
Night comes first: crimson and white crumpled and cast aside, ducats thrown into the green, burning yellow cards dealt into the black palms of the windows — and then morning, with its sullen rain and its kings of gaslight dying over the boulevards. A port where steamships wear anchors for earrings; streets that sharpen the faces of the years, where a conjuror pulls rails from a tram's jaws and a bald lamp undresses the street; shop signs read like iron books; theatres, a two-humped camel of a river, a moon who is the poet's wife — fifteen short thunderclaps from the first two years of the loudest voice in Russian poetry, ending with spring itself, exhausted in two lines.
Night (Ночь), Morning (Утро), The Port (Порт), Street Scene (Уличное), From Street to Street (Из улицы в улицу), And Could You? (А вы могли бы?), To Shop Signs (Вывескам), Theatres (Театры), Something About Petersburg (Кое-что про Петербург), After a Woman (За женщиной), Along the Pavement (По мостовой), A Few Words About My Wife (Несколько слов о моей жене), A Few Words About My Mama (Несколько слов о моей маме), A Few Words About Myself (Несколько слов обо мне самом), and An Exhaustive Picture of Spring (Исчерпывающая картина весны) — fifteen early poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, in new English verse translations made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.
Ночь · Утро · Порт · Уличное · Из улицы в улицу · А вы могли бы? · Вывескам · Театры · Кое-что про Петербург · За женщиной · По мостовой · Несколько слов о моей жене · Несколько слов о моей маме · Несколько слов обо мне самом · Исчерпывающая картина весны
Mayakovsky.
Intermission: "Tampa Across the Water" — instrumental.
KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.