CONTENTS
PREFACE VII ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
PART I DISCUSSION
Chapter I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS 3
Chapter II. MARINETTI AND THE EMERGENCE OF FUTURISM 11 1. Italien gallicisant — Poète lauréat 11 2. A Jester or a Prophet 16 3. The Manifestoes 21
Chapter III. THE CRAFT 31 1. The First Stages 31 2. Words in Freedom 33
Chapter IV. THE SEARCH FOR A NEW IDIOM IN RUSSIA AND THE UKRAINE 41 1. A Slap in the Face of Public Taste 41 2. Cubo- Ego- and Other Futurism(s ?) 46 3. Ukrainian Quero- and Pan-Futurism 51
Chapter V. THE ANATOMY OF SOUND AND MEANING 57 1. Experimenting with Morphology 57 2. Nocturne on a Drainpipe 61 3. Towards New Semantics 72
Chapter VI. THE TORTUOUS COURSE OF FUTURISM IN POLAND 83 XII FUTURISM IN MODERN POETRY
Chapter VII. THE FURTHER EXPANSION OF THE FUTURIST IDEAS 97 1. Futurism in Czech and Slovak Poetry 97 2. Slovenia 102 3. Spain and Portugal 107 4. Brazil 109 Chapter VIII. CONCLUSION 117
PART II A SELECTION OF FUTURIST POETRY I. ITALY 125 A. FREE VERSE 125 Libero Altomare Canto futurista 126 A Futurist Song 127 A un aviatore 130 To an Aviator 131 Enrico Cardile Ode alia violenza 134 Ode to Violence 135 Enrico Cavacchioli Fuga in aeroplano 142 Flight in an Aeroplane 143 Auro D'Alba II piccolo re 146 The Little King 147 Luciano Folgore L'Elettricità 150 Electricity 151 F.T. Marinetti À l'automobile de course 154 To a Racing Car 155 Armando Mazza A Venezia 158 To Venice 159 Aldo Palazzeschi E lasciatemi divertire 164 And Let Me Have Fun 165 B. PAROLE IN LIBERTÀ 171 Loris Catrizzi Serata futurista 172 A Futurist Evening 173 Escodame L'operaio e le sue sirene 174 The Workman and His Sirens 175 Farfa Triangolo 176 Triangle 177 Fillia Sensualità meccanica 178 Mechanical Sensuality 179 F. T. Marinetti Bombardamento 182 Bombardment 183 Bruno G. Sanzin bora polvere 188 bora dust 189 CONTENTS XIII
III. RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN FUTURISTS 191 A. RUSSIAN 191 Velimir Khlebnikov Заклятие смехом 192 Zaklyatie smekhom 192 Conjuration by Lainghter 193 Incantation by Laughter 193 В этот день голубых медведей 194 V etot den' golubykh medvedey .. 194 On the Day of Blue Bears 195 Бобэоби 196 Bobeobi 196 Bobeobi 197
Vladimir Mayakovsky Ночь 198 Noch 198 Night 199 Утро 200 Utro 201 Morning 202 А вы могли бы ? 203 Avy mogliby ? 203 But could you 203 Я 204 Ya 204 Me 205 Облако в штанах 206 Oblako v ohtanakh 207 A Cloud in Pants 210 Неоконченное 212 Neokonchennoe 212 Unfinished 212
Aleksey Kruchenykh Мир кончился 213 Mir konchilsya 213 The World Has Ended 213
Vasily Kamensky Вызов 214 Vyzov 214 Challenge 215 XIV FUTURISM IN MODERN POETRY
David Burliuk Раздолье время 216 Razdol'e vremya 216 Boundlessness Time 217 Vadim Shershenevich К. Большакову 218 К. BoPshakovu 218 To K. Bolshakov 219 Nikolay Aseev Башни радио 220 Bashni radio 220 Radio Towers 220
B. UKRAINIAN 221 Mykhayl Semenko MICTO 222 Misto 222 City 223
Geo Shkurupiy Семафори 224 Semafory 225 Semaphores 226
IV. ET ALII 227 A. POLISH 227 Jerzy Jankowski Spton lotnika 228 Conflagration of a Flier (Fragments) 229 Bruno Jasienski Przejechali 232 Run over 232 Pies'ri о gfodzie 234 Song of Hunger (Fragment) 235 Tytus Czyzewski miasto w jesienny wieczdr 236 city on an autumn evening 237 Spiewaja.ce domy 238 Singing Houses 239 Jan Hrynkowski Szpital 240 Hospital 241 Anatol Stern Czcicielowi maszyn 242 To the Worshipper of Machines .. 243 Rewolucja ciala 244 Revolution of the Flesh 245
V. CZECH 247 Stanislav K. Neumann Zpëvy dratû 248 Songs of Wires 249 CONTENTS XV
Vitezslav Nezval Pierot cyklista 250 Pierrot Cyclist 251 Jaroslav Seifert Vsecky krásy sveta 252 All the Beauties of the World .... 253 VI. SLOVENE 257 Anton Podbevsek Elektricna zoga 258 Electric Ball (Fragment) 259 Vladimir Premru 2rtvenik ob slapu ki koplje grob zivim 262 Altar by the Waterfall that Digs a Grave for the Living 263 Sre5ko Kosovel Moja pesem 264 My Song 264
A. PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN 265 Alvaro de Campos Ode triunfal 266 Triumphal Ode 267 Sergio Milliet Revêrie 268 Rêverie 269 Manuel Bandeira Poética 270 Poetics 271 Mario de Andrade Ode ao burguês 272 Ode to the Bourgeois 273
BIBLIOGRAPHY 277 INDEX 281