Poems. Issued in paper wrappers In an edition of 600 copies "Design by Sevendoubleyou, with Don't Look Now!, and Rebekah Smith. Typeset in New Caledonia, Cochin, and Avenir. Printed and bound by McNaughton & Gunn. Dust jacket printed by Prestige Printing. Paper for cover and dust jacket from French Paper Co. Assembled by volunteers at Ugly Duckling Presse."--Colophon.
Contents:
[first line: Things should not be called by their names...] (undated). The goat's sweetmeat (1913) -- The sorowee of damnies (1913) -- Pippingdom (1913) -- [first line: a Da manstrel...] (1913) -- Petitohrsey (2nd year after Death) -- Yesterday, today, tomorrow (2549 AD) -- Thefirstgreatdrama (38687 AD) -- Alphabet for the entrants (1913) -- The fiery robe (1917) -- [first line: Natalia Goncharova...] (1917) -- [first line: That galloping swan...] (1918) -- [first line: suk...] (undated) -- [first line: My words are not so transparent...] (undated) -- [first line: The past the present the future...] (undated) -- [first line: I did not know you were of crystal...] (undated) -- [first line: Overshadowed. Overwoed. Overstressed...] (undated) -- [first line: The less you comprehend the more you are poetically tuned...] (undated) -- [first line: The beginning of springtime...] (undated) -- [first line: Maybe I am god...] (undated) -- [first line: In the snow I walk like a dozing bear...] (1973) -- [first line: It is easy to believe what you are told...] (1974) -- [first line: Now everything is accessible...] (1974) -- [first line: I felt cold from the opening...] (1974) -- [first line: Things should not be called by their names...] (undated).
Summary:
"Bringing together a selection of his early Futurist works and poems from his later years, Alphabet for the Entrants is the first stand-alone volume of poetry by Vasilisk Gnedov available in English. Marked by the vibrancy and self-grandiosity of a rising literary star, the early poems seek to forge a new language by dissembling the old. The later poems, stripped of formal experimentation, reveal a meditative consciousness refined through years of personal turmoil. By turns inscrutable and aphoristic, caustic and tender, morose and ebullient, the poems express the poet's evolving view of poetry and the rapidly changing world around him."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 October 23).
Series:
Eastern European poets series ; #44
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1057558317
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.