Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian futurist poet and playwright who was the loudest voice of the Russian Revolution. His long poems A Cloud in Trousers and The Backbone Flute show his gift for rhetorical intensity.
Works
- A Cloud in TrousersAvant-garde poem blending futurism, satire, and revolutionary rhetoric
- The Backbone FluteErotic poem exploring passion and the breaking of conventional bonds
- Vladimir Ilyich LeninEpic Soviet propaganda poem celebrating Lenin and communist revolution
- About ThatPoem contrasting carnal love with ideological commitment to Soviet cause
- 150 000 000Futurist poem depicting an imagined mass revolutionary character