Abstract
The author is grateful to Monika Greenleaf, William Mills Todd, III, Annette Pein, and John Malmstad for their generous comments on earlier versions of this paper. Monika Greenleaf suggested important distinctions between Khlebnikov and those of his contemporaries who set out to define Moi Pushkin. John Malmstad deserves special thanks for his thorough readings of several drafts; this text owes much to his discerning critical eye. Once more, once more, / I'm for you / A star. / Woe to the sailor who sets / A false angle of his boat / And star. / He will break up on the rocks, / On the underwater shoals. / Woe then to you who set / A false angle of [your] heart to me: / You will break up on the rocks, / And the rocks will laugh / At you, / The way you laughed / At me. Velimir Khlebnikov, Tvoreniia (Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1986), 182. Unless otherwise noted, all subsequent citations from Khlebnikov's poetry will be made from this edition. All translations of Khlebnikov's verse are mine unless otherwise noted.
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