Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Carcanet Out of print in English

Out of print in English for over thirty years

touched by a humorous zeal and an appetite for living

Trinity may have harboured more great poets than any other comparable institution: Herbert

Seamus Heaney

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Carcanet Out of print in EnglishNever 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