{"product_id":"the-fire-horse-childrens-poems-by-vladimir-mayakovsky-osip-mandelstam-and-daniil-kharms-isbn-9781681370927","title":"The Fire Horse: Children's Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam and Daniil Kharms","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhimsical and revolutionary poems and art by some of Russia's foremost avant-garde writers and illustrators\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA boy wants a toy horse big enough to ride, but where can his father find it? Not in the stores, which means it’s got to be built from scratch. How? With the help of expert workers, from the carpenter to the painter, working together as one. And now the bold boy is ready to ride off in defense of the future!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two trams, Click and Zam, are cousins. Click goes out for a day on the tracks and before long he’s so tired he doesn’t know where he is or how to get back. All he knows is he’s got to find Zam. Click is looking for Zam and Zam is looking for Click, and though for a while it seems like nobody knows where to find Click, good and faithful Zam is not to be deterred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peter’s a car, Vasco’s a steamboat, and Mikey’s a plane. They’re all running like mad and going great guns until, whoops, there’s a big old cow, just a plain old cow, standing in the road. What then? The early years of the Soviet Union were a golden age for children’s literature. The Fire Horse brings together three classics from the era in which some of Russia’s most celebrated poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Daniil Kharms, teamed up with some of its finest artists, Lidia Popova, Boris Ender, and Vladimir Konashevich. Brilliantly translated by the poet Eugene Ostashevsky, this is poetry that is as whimsical and wonderful as it is revolutionary.“The original illustrations, particularly by Lidia Popova to Mayakovsky and Boris Ender to Mandelstam, are richly rewarding, and the book will delight adult readers who don’t know Russian as well as the three-to-nine year olds at whom the publishers direct it.” —Catriona Kelly, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rendered in a jubilant, spirited English, these narrative poems are accompanied by their original and beloved avant-garde illustrations.... If today’s readers want to empower their children to construct a better world from the miserable resources of the present one, the crafty poems of \u003ci\u003eFire Horse\u003c\/i\u003e are necessary literature.\" —Ania Aizman, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Page-Turner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pictures by Popova, Ender, and Konashevich, respectively, are wondrous to behold in their own right and as precursors to mid-20th-century Western picture-book art...A glimpse into Soviet children's-book illustration.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The early Soviet period was a miraculously rich time for children’s books and their illustration. . . The illustrations [to Mandelstam’s \u003ci\u003eTwo Trams\u003c\/i\u003e] display great elegance. The artist, Boris Ender, plays with a very limited palette of colours—black, red and grey, with the occasional touch of light brown—and with simplified shapes, especially the recurring sweep of parallel tramlines. It’s a lovely example of less doing more.” —Philip Pullman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lesser-known product of early Soviet support for the arts was the breathtaking flowering of Soviet children’s literature, as witnessed by NYRB’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, with its faithful reproductions of three books from 1925 to 1930.\" —Ainsley Morse, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, which brings together six poets and  illustrators from 1920s Soviet Russia, beautifully packaged by New York  Review Books, it is not the ideology that excites, but the artistic  craftsmanship, and the reflection of everyday life at the time....So arrestingly ahead of its time, \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Horse\u003c\/i\u003e is testament  to the necessity of translation and intercultural exposure; writers  cannot possibly guess at the future of their field without discovering  these hidden revolutions and inventions which have shaped and will  continue to shape it. We have a duty to read any literature bequeathed by past cultures or  political systems, in part to debunk any simplistic narratives of that  culture or system which might prevail in our own. Ostashevsky, who was  born in Leningrad but migrated to New York in 1979, understands this,  and has approached these poems with both respect and a view to making  them very accessible; \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Horse\u003c\/i\u003e is, to put it simply, another world, alive.\" —James Antoniou, \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugene Ostashevsky \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of two poetry collections and \u003ci\u003eThe Pirate Who\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDoes Not Know the Value of Pi \u003c\/i\u003eand the editor and translator of \u003ci\u003eAlexander Vvedensky:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Invitation for Me to Think \u003c\/i\u003e(both NYRB Poets).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOsip Mandelstam \u003c\/b\u003e(1891–1938), was an established poet who was unpopular with Soviet authorities \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam \u003c\/i\u003eis available as an NYRB Classic and \u003ci\u003eVoronezh Notebooks \u003c\/i\u003eis available in the NYRB Poets series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVladimir Mayakovsky \u003c\/b\u003e(1893–1930) is best known for his longer poems \u003ci\u003eVladimir\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIlyich Lenin \u003c\/i\u003e(1924) and \u003ci\u003eAll Right! \u003c\/i\u003e(1927).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniil Kharms \u003c\/b\u003e(1905–1942) was an absurdist poet and writer and founder of the avant-garde collective OBEIRU in 1928.","brand":"NYR Children's Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304387956965,"sku":"NP9781681370927","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681370927.jpg?v=1767739340","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-fire-horse-childrens-poems-by-vladimir-mayakovsky-osip-mandelstam-and-daniil-kharms-isbn-9781681370927","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}