Details

Subject(s)

• Children's literature—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Fear—Poetry [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Cover title. Wrappers included in pagination.
• Annenkov's avant garde illustrations and design provide the setting for this terrifying poem "... youth sacrificed, children with weapons ... houses in ruins, the lack of food, a parliament without chairs or tables. Images which haunt the author and of which he frees himself at quarter past eight. (The actual Russian translates as "A quarter of nine").
• Publisher's list inside lower wrap lists four works by Natan Vengrov, as well as works by Remizov, Sof'ia Dubnova, Sergei Esenin, I. Sokolov-Mikiov, Evgenii Zamiatin, Uot Uitmen, and Mikhail Kuzmin.
• Translated title: A Quarter Past Eight.

Binding note

Pub. buff pictorial self wrappers.

OCLC

34210348

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