Review of Over the Last Limit

Night Wraps the Sky:

Writings by and about Mayakovsky

Edited by Michael Almereyda

Farrar Straus and Giroux $27.00 (Hardcover) xxvii + 270 pp.

Published in Boston Review, 33, no. 4 (July/August 2008), 45-47.

what a poet!

and the clear water is thick

with bloody blows on its head.

I embraced a cloud,

But when I soared

it rained.

–Frank O’Hara, “Mayakovsky” (1954) […]