Profsoiuz sumasshednikh: (The Trade Union of Madmen. Lyrics)

Chernov's first published collection of poems written earlier in Ukraine from 1921 to 1923. Chernov (1899-1933) was a Ukrainian Futurist who initially wrote in Russian. He spent a year in Vladivostok during years of peregrination across Russia and ended up in India where he contracted tuberculosis and was forced to return, settling in Odessa. From there he worked with his fellow Futurists, now writing in Ukrainian and writing prose and poetry. He was part of the Nova Heneratsiya and Avangard group activities in Kharkiv until his death. His work was withdrawn and banned in 1934 and much of his work only released after 1992. With a fine constructivist cover by Pavel Liubarskii (1891-1970), graphic designer from Khabarovsk who allied with Futurists while studying in Moscow, then returning to the Russian Far East where he collaborated in the productions of Taifun and Tvorchestvo journals, issuing expressionist prints and holding exhibitions. He was highly influential in the Green Cat group of experimental writers and artists in Siberia. In 1928 he left for Moscow and safely assimilated into the art and design world there. Not in MOMA or Getty, this work is uncommon, with 4 institutions holding copies in North America