Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. Part love poem, part political diatribe and the most autobiographical of Mayakovsky's works, this title confirms Mayakovsky as one of the towering figures of Russian literature.

'Vladimir Mayakovsky and That's What ' Introduction by John Wakeman; 'Translating Mayakovsky's That's What' Preface by George Hyde; What's This? - That's What (pp 22-3); I. The Ballad of Reading Gaol (pp. 28-29); II. Christmas Eve (pp 66-67); Application on behalf of... (Please, comraade chemist, fill it in yourself) (pp 140-141); Notes (p 164); Biographical Notes (p 168) PHOTOMONTAGES BY ALEXANDER RODCHENKO Untitled (p 6); She lies / in bed. / While he... / On the table is a telephone.(p.31); from the cable / crawled - / scratching jealously - / a monster from troglodytic / times. (p 47); I paw at / my ears / kneading uselessly. / I hear / my own / my very own voice. / The knife / of this voice bores through / my paws. (p 61); So it ever was / And ever shall be / World without end. / The old mare / of the daily grind / canters on serenely. (p 91); And again / the walls / baked hot like the steppe / echo / and sigh / in your ears, in the two-step. (p 113); I catch my balance / waving frantically. (p 131); Four times I try - / four times / resuscitated (p 147); She too / - she used to like animals - / will come to the Public Gardens (p 159); Untitled (p 162); Untitled (p 163)