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While each does so in a unique way

translated by Stephen Watts and Marga Burgui-Artajo

From Syrian author and poet Maher Sharafeddine comes an excerpt from his debut novel

Dewi Roberts

the demotic and the democratic

Pro Eto - That's What Vivian Slioa While each does so inVladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre and post revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. His fascination with sound and form, linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of poets poet, the doyen, if not the envy, of his contemporaries, (Pasternak among them). His poetry is strangely akin to modern rock poetry in its erotic thrust, bluesy complaints and cries of pain, not to