ARGONAUT BOOKS

The early years of the Soviet Union were a golden age for children's literature. 'The Fire Horse' brings together three classics from the era in which some of Russia's most celebrated poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelshtam, and Daniil Kharms, teamed up with some of its finest artists, Lidia Popova, Boris Ender, and Vladimir Konashevich. Brilliantly translated by the poet Eugene Ostashevsky, this is poetry that is as whimsical and wonderful as it is revolutionary. Reviews "The original illustrations, particularly by Lidia Popova to Mayakovsky and Boris Ender to Mandelst...Read More