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Mayakovsky, Vladimir , Mandelstam, Osip , Kharms, Daniil

The Fire Horse: Children's Poems

48 pp. | NYRB | March, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-68137-092-7 $16.95
(4) K-3 Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky. Illustrated by Lidia Popova, Boris Ender, and Vladimir Konashevich. This volume brings together three 1920s-era poems by well-known Russian poets featuring the creation of a large toy horse, two trams named Click and Zam, and three boys pretending to be vehicles. The stilted language (translated from the Russian) and retro art are unlikely to engage today's kids. A window into Soviet-era children's book publishing, this will be valued most as a historical document.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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