What Is Good and What Is Bad (Khorosho!)

This edition includes poems and verses by Vladimir Mayakovsky, an outstanding poet of the 20th century and one of the leaders of the Russian avant-garde. Mayakovsky, who 'equated the pen with the bayonet,' became the voice of the revolution and a symbol of the Soviet era. Tsvetaeva called him 'the world's first poet of the masses... the first Russian poet-orator.' And, like any great poet, he outgrew his time: Mayakovsky's work, no matter how controversial it may be today, is sought after by new generations of readers, and his life in art has proven long.