Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, Volume I, Letters and Theoretical Writings

Velimir Khlebnikov

Translated by Paul Schmidt

Edited by Charlotte Douglas

    Letters and Biographical Writings

    Introduction: Velimir Khlebnikov

    Letters

    Questionnaire

    Autobiographical Note

    Self-Statement

    From Journals

    From Notes from the Past

    Theoretical Writings

    Introduction: Kindred Spirits

    1. Nature

    "Let them read on my gravestone"

    "On finding a cuckoo"

    Ornithological Observations in the Pavdinsk Preserve

    An Attempt to Formulate a Concept in the Natural Sciences

    2. Russia

    Slavs!

    Who are the Ugrorussians?

    About the Brodniki

    The Burial Mound of Sviatagor

    Monuments

    Roar about the Railroads

    A Friend in the West

    "We want a word maiden"

    "We accuse the older generation"

    Poems by Thirteen Springs

    Expanding the Boundaries of Russian Literature

    The Word as Such

    The Letter as Such

    Polemical Remarks of 1913

    ! Futurian

    On the Usefulness of Studying Fairy Tales

    3. Language

    "Let us consider two words"

    "Here is the way the syllable so is a field"

    "The ear of the philologist detects"

    Teacher and Student

    Two Individuals

    "The warrior of the kingdom"

    Oleg and Kazimir

    On the Simple Names of Language

    Z and Its Environs

    Analyzing the Word

    A Little Introductory Dictionary of Single-Syllable Words

    A Checklist: The Alphabet of the Mind

    A Second Language

    4. Visions of the Future

    The Trumpet of the Martians

    A Letter to Two Japanese

    Lalia Rides a Tiger

    An Appeal by the Presidents of Planet Earth

    Letter to Grigory Petnikov

    Outline for a Public Lecture and Discussion

    "We, the Presidents of Planet Earth"

    An Indo-Russian Union

    Asiaunion

    Swanland in the Future

    Ourselves and Our Buildings

    Proposals

    The Head of the Universe

    Artists of the World

    On Poetry

    On Contemporary Poetry

    Our Fundamentals

    The Radio of the Future

    A Cliff out of the Future

    From the Notebooks

    The Wheel of Births

    Order from the Presidents of Planet Earth

    "There is a phrase"

    Excerpt from the Tables of Destiny

    Everyone, Everywhere, Attention!

    5. Journalism

    The Union of Inventors

    Opening of the People's University

    Opening of an Art Gallery

    The Astrakhan Gioconda

    Index of Khlebnikov titles

    General Index

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Paul Schmidt is the winner of the Max Hayward Prize for his translation of Velimir Khlebnikov, The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian (Harvard).