#mayakovsky

[apoemaday]

Mayakovsky

by Frank O’Hara

I. My heart’s aflutter! I am standing in the bath tub crying. Mother, mother who am I? If he will just come back once and kiss me on the face his coarse hair brush my temple, it’s throbbing! then I can put on my clothes I guess, and walk the streets. II. I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist. Words! be sick as I am sick, swoon, roll back your eyes, a pool, and I’ll stare down at my wounded beauty which at best is only a talent for poetry. Cannot please, cannot charm or win what a poet! and the clear water is thick with bloody blows on its head. I embrace a cloud, but when I soared it rained. III. That’s funny! there’s blood on my chest oh yes, I’ve been carrying bricks what a funny place to rupture! and now it is raining on the ailanthus as I step out onto the window ledge the tracks below me are smoky and glistening with a passion for running I leap into the leaves, green like the sea IV. Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

[metamorphesque]

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky

[sovietpostcards]

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1917)

[lemon-etiquette]

estrogen would have saved her

[pro-writer-does-fan-fic]

Mayakovsky, is that you?

[sudensk-the-stallionist]

love me some mayakovsky. so cuuuutee

[lissasinclair]

[hiyutekivigil]

from mayakovsky by frank o'hara

[outstanding-quotes]

Frank O’Hara, “Mayakovsky”

[angstics]

these covers rock

[cyhsal]

Every year around Christmas time I draw Esenin and Mayakovsky for my literature art account! 🎄 I’ve been doing this for a few years now and wanted to share this year’s one on here too. I’ve enjoyed seeing my art evolve through these posts over the years. (Links below are my lit art pages!)

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and happy holidays to everyone — I hope you all have a wonderful festive time! Wishing you a lot of joy in the new year ahead. 🎇

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[empirearchives]

Vladimir Mayakovsky, A Cloud in Trousers

[metamorphesque]

I embrace a cloud, but when I soared it rained.

Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky

[sovietpostcards]

"At least once a week, as you come home, wash the floor with hot water!"

Poster by Nikolai Denisovsky, verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1931)

[wallflowerrs-blog]

Mayakovsky wrote :

[sixty-silver-wishes]

a rare and fascinating historical source- a radio interview with shostakovich from 1972 on his time collaborating with mayakovsky on "the bedbug" (russian language only; transcript available as pdf on website)