Mayakovsky. How to Write Poems

Vladimir Mayakovsky is a bright and original phenomenon in domestic culture, comparable perhaps only to the birth of a supernova; after him, poetry was divided into before and after. No matter how you define Mayakovsky – the first proletarian poet,... futurist, artist, movie star, traveler, lover, suicide – any definition will be inadequate. Therefore, no work on Mayakovsky can claim to have exhaustive depth. However, the possibilities of new media offer new, futuristic approaches to the object of study that would appeal to the object itself, the author of the comic book "The Windows of Growth": the graphic novel "Mayakovsky. How to Write Poems" is both an artistic biography offering an exciting immersion into the life and work of the poet, and a kind of to-do list for poets wishing to write "in the style of Mayakovsky", and a postmodern statement that resembles a spiritual séance in which the spirit of the poet reluctantly reveals how poems are made.