Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Carcanet Matthew Dickman

Matthew Dickman

graceful in their cadences

touched by a humorous zeal and an appetite for living

Out of print in English for over thirty years

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Carcanet Matthew DickmanNever have I wanted to be understood so much as in this poem, said Mayakovsky of his 3,000 line epic Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Written immediately after the death of Lenin in 1924, it proudly and passionately sets the story of the Bolshevik leaders life against the history of capitalism and the trajectory of Soviet communism. By turns declamatory, lyrical, journalistic and colloquial, the poem is an extraordinary record of the utopian excitement of the