Treasurer of Piggy Banks Scherzos Benjyosos The radical scope of its

The radical scope of its representation makes for the most comprehensive account of Mayakovsky’s work to date – an account which charts not only the extraordinary range of his creative output

surprise and transgression as artistic strategies

flourishing insomniacal language

With its quiet

connections inside strict 16-line grids

Treasurer of Piggy Banks Scherzos Benjyosos The radical scope of itsVinod Kumar Shukla (trans. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) Infiltrator or inhabitant? In Treasurer of Piggy Banks, Shukla sees the world through both lenses at once. All details are local yet canonical. We are uprooted and yet everywhere roots are spreading far and wide. Shukla illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic and surreal clarity, from environmental collapse, to the way our own deaths are snug inside our lives. The poems are