The Moscow Notebooks

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The Moscow Notebooks ~ Московские тетради (Мандельштам) written by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Dmitri Smirnov

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See also Poems. "The Moscow Notebooks" are dated from October 1930 to February 1934.

Contents

• O, we are so afraid, I and you 1930
• Help me, The Lord, to live through the night 1931
• My eyelashes are stinging. A tear has taken a fancy to the chest… — Колют ресницы. В груди прикипела слеза… 1931 Translated by Richard Shaw
  • Eyelashes are stinging. Tear took a fancy to the chest Translated by Dmitri Smirnov
• For the resounding glory of ages to come… ("The Wolf") — За гремучую доблесть грядущих веков… («Волк») 1931 Translated by Richard Shaw
• No, it is not a migraine, but pass me a pencil of menthol 1931
• Keep my words forever, because of their taste of unhappiness and smoke… 1931 Translated by Richard Shaw
• Do you remember runners in 1932 Translated by Dmitri Smirnov
• Stalin Epigram 1933 Translated by Dmitri Smirnov
• Octets 1932 – 1935 Translated by Dmitri Smirnov

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…