This poetry anthology includes the work of Russian writers Alexander Vedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky who, between 1927 and 1930 made up the core of OBERIU (The Union of Real Art), and of Nikolai Oleinikov, Leonid Lipavsky and Yakov Druskin who worked in the same vein. They offer a reflection of the distorted reality they rejected.