This extraordinary book by Marjorie Perloff was one of the first to offer a rigorous and rich analysis of the moments of poetic brilliance of futurism in European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Through considerations penetrating prose, visual arts, poetry and futurist manifestos, Perloff reveals the impulses of futuristic time from Russia to Italy and trace echoes through the years, still reverberate in the play "postmodern "figures such as Roland Barthes. This edition, tuning his new preface, reexamines the futuristic time under the light of a new century, where the futuristic ethos seems increasingly to say more about this.