The early years of the Soviet Union were a golden age for children’s literature.TheFire Horsebrings together three classics from the era in which some of Russia’s mostcelebrated poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Daniil Kharms,teamed up with some of its finest artists, Lidia Popova, Boris Ender, and VladimirKonashevich. Brilliantly translated by the poet Eugene Ostashevsky, this is poetrythat is as whimsical and wonderful as it is revolutionary.