SLAP IN THE FACE:

FOUR RUSSIAN FUTURIST MANIFESTOS

Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk

A SLAP IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC TASTE (1912)

the manifesto from A TRAP FOR JUDGES II (1913)

GO TO HELL! (1914)

A DROP OF TAR (1915)

“The emergence of the New poetries has affected the still-creeping old fogies of Russian little-ature like white-marbled Pushkin dancing the tango.”

The four manifestos collected in A SLAP IN THE FACE rattle with the verbal ingenuity and vitriolic verve of Russia’s most accomplished Futurist...