Moscow Notebooks

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Язык оригинала: Московские тетради. — See also Poems. "The Moscow Notebooks" are dated from October 1930 to February 1934

Contents

1930

• Куда как страшно нам с тобой..., October 1930
  • Oh how afraid we are, you and I... Translated by Richard Shaw
  • O, we are so afraid, I and you Translated by DS
• Ленинград, December 1930
  • Leningrad Translated by Richard Shaw

1931

• Мы с тобой на кухне посидим…
  • You and I sit in the kitchen… Translated by Richard Shaw

• Помоги, господь, эту ночь прожить…, January 1931
  • Help me O Lord live through this night… Translated by Richard Shaw
  • Help me, The Lord, to live through the night Translated by DS

• После полуночи сердце ворует……, March 1931
  • After midnight, the heart steals… Translated by Richard Shaw

• Колют ресницы. В груди прикипела слеза…, March 2, 1931
  • My eyelashes are stinging. A tear has taken a fancy to the chest… Translated by Richard Shaw
  • Eyelashes are stinging. Tear took a fancy to the chest… Translated by DS

• За гремучую доблесть грядущих веков… («Волк») 1931
  • For the resounding glory of ages to come… ("The Wolf") Translated by Richard Shaw
  • For the thunderous glory of ages to come… ("The Wolf") Translated by DS

• – Нет, не мигрень, – но подай карандашик ментоловый… 23 апреля 1931
  • No, it is not a migraine, but pass me a pencil of menthol… 1931 Translated by DS

• Сохрани мою речь навсегда за привкус несчастья и дыма… 3 мая 1931
  • Keep my words forever, because of their taste of unhappiness and smoke… 1931 Translated by Richard Shaw
  • Preserve my words forever for their taste of smoke and bad luck… 1931 Translated by DS

• Do you remember runners in… 1932 Translated by DS

1933

• Мы живём, под собою не чуя страны…
  • Stalin Epigram (DS)
• Octets 1932 – 1935 Translated by DS

I. I love the uprise of a texture… (1)

II. I love the uprise of a texture… (2)

III. O butterfly, O Moslem-woman…

IV. The tiny appendage of the sixth sense…

V. Overcoming the firmness of nature…

VI. When, after destroying the sketches…

VII. And Schubert on the water, and Mozart in the bird's hubbub…

VIII. And the toothed paw of the maple…

IX. Tell me, Desert Draftsman...

X. From needle-shaped pestilential glasses...

XI. And I go out from space…