BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION Cape Editions dust jacket hardcover, free tracking number, clean NEW text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT EX-LIBRARY slight shelfwear / storage-wear; jacket is VERY GOOD WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201604461 Nikolai Zabolotsky was a much admired Russian poet of the first half of the 20th century. He came to prominence as a poet in the 1920s during the first decade of the Soviet era. He suffered persecution and exile during the period of Soviet purges and died shortly after his rehabilitation. "Scrolls" is Zabolotsky's first and most controversial collection of poems published in 1929. When Zabolotsky published “Scrolls,” the critics branded him a bizarre and dangerous individualist. Few of the poems had been published prior to this collection, so their appearance came as something of a surprise, if not a shock. What struck the reader of this book of twenty-two poems was the grotesque and fragmented vision of the Soviet urban scene as it existed in the Leningrad of the 1920s, and especially as it responded to the New Economic Policy. The poems treated the various aspects of urban life during this Communist version of liberalism and capitalism as it affronted the sensibilities of an impressionable youth from the provinces. What he depicted was a world that was suspended between satire and despair. Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)