Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky.(Brief article)(Book review)

At the height of his fame, in the nineteen-twenties, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was arguably the leading figure in Soviet art. Perhaps only Walt Whitman--whom Mayakovsky passionately admired--wrote with similar breadth and exhilaration. This volume offers some of Mayakovsky's best works in vivid translations, and interleaves them with essays, photographs, and historical documents (including a complaint by a Tsarist prison governor about the poet's refusal to obey ...