Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Carcanet one of Ireland’s best-loved sporting

one of Ireland’s best-loved sporting heroes

beautifully cadenced

Out of print in English for over thirty years

and two volumes translated by Forrest Gander

giving them an international gathering of poems of great personal force

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky Carcanet one of Ireland’s best-loved sportingNever have I wanted to be understood so much as in this poem, said Mayakovsky of his 3,000 line epic Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Written immediately after the death of Lenin in 1924, it proudly and passionately sets the story of the Bolshevik leaders life against the history of capitalism and the trajectory of Soviet communism. By turns declamatory, lyrical, journalistic and colloquial, the poem is an extraordinary record of the utopian excitement of the