

Opened in St. Petersburg in 1912. the eponymous space (described as a wine cellar) quickly became a gathering place for what would become the greatest Russian artists of the time, as illustrated by this volume of poetry. As Richard Howard's blurb on the back states, “For Paul Schmidt...expression became literature insofar as it was dramatic.“ This anthology is conceived as a sort of series of performances of the 8 poets, with their works (cont)
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