This Soviet Avant-Garde Journal Published Some Of The 20th Century’s Greatest Minds
There’s a line in one of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem-play “Vladimir Myakovsky” (the young poet was nothing if not confident) that strikes me as among the most ferocious lines ever put to paper: “We will eat this century like meat, we’ll eat our fill, licking the plates!” The oeuvre of Mayakovsky, one of the great early…
