The book contains texts related to a little-known episode in Russia from the history of contacts between Western avant-garde literature and the Soviet literary and political process. Selected chapters from the novel “Aimee, or I Am” are published - an experimental travelogue text about Soviet Russia, published in 1933 by the greatest poet of the American avant-garde, E. E. Cummings (1894–1962). From the daily notes of a poet wandering in the Soviet underworld, an epic is born the scope of an odyssey about the fate of the individual in a tyrannical society of violence and coercion. L. Aragon and E. Triolet, Sun. appear on the pages of the book. Meyerhold and Z. Reich, L. Brik and V. Mayakovsky, N. Goncharova and M. Larionov, I. Ehrenburg and B. Pasternak, J. Joyce and E. Pound. For the first time, the Russian reader will learn about an example of a withering satire on Soviet society, hushed up for many decades, the author of which was a radical American avant-garde poet. The publication is equipped with a detailed introductory article and comments. The book is accompanied by 100 illustrations that help more accurately convey the atmosphere of what Cummings saw in Soviet Marxland.