pSLAP IN THE FACE br FOUR RUSSIAN FUTURIST MANIFESTOSppTranslated from the Russian by Boris DralyukppA SLAP IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC TASTE 1912br the manifesto from A TRAP FOR JUDGES II 1913br GO TO HELL 1914br A DROP OF TAR 1915ppThe emergence of the New poetries has affected the still-creeping old fogies of Russian little-ature like white-marbled Pushkin dancing the tango.ppThe four manifestos collected in A SLAP IN THE FACE rattle with the verbal ingenuity and vitriolic verve of Russia's most accomplished Futurist collective--known as Hylaea and, for a brief period, the Cubo- Futurists. Organized in 1910-11 by the Burlyuk brothers, the group featured the wildly talented poets Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky, as well as the master of transrational zaum poetics, Aleksey Kruchenykh. The Hylaean program of total destruction and uncertain renewal offers an ominous parallel to the political turmoil of the Great War and the events of 1917. Dralyuk's annotations provide informa