Omschrijving
The Fine Feats of the Five Cockerels Gang is a Marxist-Surrealist Yugoslav epic poem for children accompanied by wild photocollage illustrations. This extraordinary artistic achievement manages to dazzle simultaneously as a daringly experimental work and an exciting, action-packed adventure story.
Ainsley Morse (Ph.D. Harvard University, 2016) is a translator and assistant professor of Russian language and literature at Dartmouth College. She has published Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature (2021) as well as many translations of poetry, prose and theory. Aleksandar Bošković (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2013) is a lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poetic Humor in Vasko Popa’s Oeuvre (in Serbian, 2008) and co-editor of Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (2022).