SEVERYANIN RUSSIAN POETRY SIGNED

SEVERYANIN, Igor [Igor Vasilevich Lotarev] (1887-1941). Linnyya teni [Moon Shadows].[St. Petersburg: I. Fleitman, 1908]. Vol. 1. One of 100 copies. Condition: wrappers faded with some soiling and pen marks. [Together with 7 other poetical works by Severyann:] Eto bylo tak nedavno... [It Was Such a Short Time Ago]. [St. Petersburg: I. Fleitman, 1909]. With a dedication poem to L. N. Afanaciev. One of 100 copies. Condition: wrappers with pen and pencil markings. Pevita lilii polei sarona [Singer of Lilies of Saron's Fields]. [St. Petersburg: I. Fleitman, Summer 1910]. With a dedication poem to L. N. Afanaciev. One of 100 copies. Condition: partially repaired tear to front wrapper, small tears to head and foot of fold. Elektricheskie Stikhi [Electric Verses]. [St. Petersburg: I. Fleitman, Summer 1911]. One of 100 copies. Condition: some pen markings to text, fold split at foot. Ruchi v liliyakh [Streams in Lilies]. [St. Petersburg: I. Fleitman, Summer 1911]. One of 100 copies.Copy inscribed by the author to newspaper. Rus. One of 100 copies. Condition: wrappers faded with previous owners stamp. Kachalka grezzrki [The Daydreaming Woman's Rocking Chair]..[St. Petersburg: Ego, Spring 1912]. Inscribed by the author to A. Izmailov. One of 100 copies. Condition: some spotting to wrappers and leaf edges, Ocham tvoei dushi [To Eyes of Your Soul]. [St. Peterbsurg: Ego, Spring-Summer 1912]. Inscribed by the author to G. Romanova with his corrections on pp.10, and 13. One of 100 copies. Condition: wrappers slightly offset, with author pen inscription on front cover. Igor Severyanin in was an important Russian poet of the early twentieth century. Under his pen-name that means "Man of the North," he led the Ego-Futurists of St. Petersburg who opposed the Cubo-Futurists in Moscow; but broke with them by 1912. He was one of the most active of modern Russian poets, often performing at "poetic concerts" all over the country with a lily in his hand à la Oscar Wilde whom he greatly admired. Although the American poet Babette Deutsch criticized "his intolerably clownish and vacuous verse," Severyanin also had many admirers. He was one of the first poets to leave Russia after the Revolution and was never able to return. (8).