Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. A Note on Transliteration vi
4. Table of Contents viii
5. Introductory Remarks 1
6. Chapter One. Prelude: April 9, 1930 12
7. Chapter Two. The Revolution: Politics 27
8. Chapter Three. The Revolution: Art 40
9. Chapter Four. Mayakovsky in the Futurist Collections 72
10. Chapter Five. 1915: The Cloud and the Flute 108
11. Chapter Six. 1916: "In My Head, War and the Universe, in My Heart, Man" 145
12. Chapter Seven. Form, Image, and Idea in the Early Poems 171
13. Chapter Eight. The Poet Engaged 190
14. Chapter Nine. About That, and About Some Other Things 219
15. Chapter Ten. A Commercial Artist Discovers America 261
16. Chapter Eleven. Contemporaries 303
17. Chapter Twelve. The Cinema and the Stage 318
18. Chapter Thirteen. A Girl from a Different World 336
19. Chapter Fourteen. The Heart Yearns for a Bullet 352
20. Epilogue—Not in Heaven 369
21. Bibliographical Essay 371
22. Index of Names 379
23. Index of Titles of Mayakovsky's Works 384