Sergeiu Eseninu [On Sergei Esenin].
Tiflis]: "Zakkniga," 1926. 16 pp., small 8vo (173 x 128 mm). Original decorated wrappers printed in red and black with front and back photomontage covers designed by Rodchenko and two in-text Constructivist photomontages. Condition : minor rubbing to fold, rubber stamp to front wrapper. first edition . Mayakovsky’s by turns lyric and angry elegy written in response to fellow poet and provocateur Sergei Esenin’s suicide with Rodchenko’s arresting visual contributions: a troika of Russian genius. Mayakovsky and Esenin were friends but also great rivals with conflicting theories of poetry. This is Mayakovsky's response to Esenin's final poem written in his own blood just before he hanged himself in 1925. "[His] death grieved me, grieved me in the ordinary sense, as a human being," Mayakovsky recalled. "It was clear at once how many people who were still hesitating would be brought to the rope or the revolver by those powerful lines--just by the lines themselves…Only with another poem could you fight that one, and you must" (Brown p. 315). Mayakovsky himself committed suicide in 1930.
Sergeiu Eseninu [On Sergei Esenin].
Tiflis]: "Zakkniga," 1926. 16 pp., small 8vo (173 x 128 mm). Original decorated wrappers printed in red and black with front and back photomontage covers designed by Rodchenko and two in-text Constructivist photomontages. Condition : minor rubbing to fold, rubber stamp to front wrapper. first edition . Mayakovsky’s by turns lyric and angry elegy written in response to fellow poet and provocateur Sergei Esenin’s suicide with Rodchenko’s arresting visual contributions: a troika of Russian genius. Mayakovsky and Esenin were friends but also great rivals with conflicting theories of poetry. This is Mayakovsky's response to Esenin's final poem written in his own blood just before he hanged himself in 1925. "[His] death grieved me, grieved me in the ordinary sense, as a human being," Mayakovsky recalled. "It was clear at once how many people who were still hesitating would be brought to the rope or the revolver by those powerful lines--just by the lines themselves…Only with another poem could you fight that one, and you must" (Brown p. 315). Mayakovsky himself committed suicide in 1930.
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