Description: Modern Russia's most brilliant, imaginative, and eccentric poet, Khlehnikov produced a body of literature that still amazes. Combining features of the avant garde (which he vigorously promoted with the Cubo--Futurists) and a scholarly interest in ancient Slavic roots and folklore, his work is a complex fabric appealing to the intellect, the imagination, the Russian national tradition, the ear (and often the eve), and the reader's sense of humor and the bizarre...Paul Schmidt [has] produced a brilliant tour de force a collection of poetry, prose fiction, declarations, and the theatrical 'supersaga' Zangezi, that gives both the general reader and the specialist (especially those interested in modern poetry) a very good idea of the range of Khlehnikov's extraordinary creativity.

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