third edition, device on preliminary blank, original decorative wrappers, lacking backstrip (replaced with simple printed paper spine), [cf. Kilgour 96], Petropolis , 1923; with another, Evtushenko, 8vo (2) Third edition of this important collection of poems by the important gay Russian writer. Along with his openly gay novel Krylya [ Wings ] and the homorerotic poetry cycle Aleksandrinskii pesni [ Alexandrian Songs ], Seti established Kuzmin as one of the most important of the Symbolist poets of the Silver Age. Maxim Gorky denounced his work as did Leon Trotsky, who scorned Kuzmin's "anarchism of the flesh." Valdimir Nabokov parodied him. Although his writing is relatively chaste by modern standards, Kuzmin was a sexual pioneer in the history of Western literature. Fellow poet Aleksandr Blok defended him against the "guardians of journalistic morality."