About the book: year / "Futurism is a spontaneous phenomenon. The history of literature is always a movement, and a new generation of writers can never be satisfied with the principles of their predecessors. Young poets of our days instinctively want to embody in their poems the new things that recent decades have brought into the psyche of humanity; for better or worse, these poets are looking for expression for it. This is the historical justification of futurism, which quickly spread from Italy and France to us, and to Germany, and even to England. Acmeism, which we have been talking about a lot lately, is a hothouse plant grown under the glass cover of a literary circle by several young poets who certainly wanted to say a new word…»