An acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poet An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva was a witness to the political turmoil and the social devastation wrought by the Russian Revolution and a powerfully inspired chronicler of a difficult life and exile sustained by poetry. Pasternak "was immediately overcome by the immense lyrical power of her poetic form. It... had spring living from experience--personal, and neither narrow-chested nor short of breath from line to line but rich and compact and enveloping" For...
An acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poet An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marin...
"Milestones" is an apt title for this collection, for the eighty-four poems within show a poet passing from mere talent into mastery of her craft. Composed between January and December of 1916, these poems find the twenty-four year-old Tsvetaeva thirsting for the fullness of life while at the same time contemplating the inevitability of death--a theme she was to revisit many times in her career. Tsvetaeva's work of the time also reflects her knowledge of (and pride in) her native culture, especially the centrality of Moscow as the ultimate destination of all Russians. Throughout the verse she...
"Milestones" is an apt title for this collection, for the eighty-four poems within show a poet passing from mere talent into mastery of her craft. Com...
Milestones (Vyorsty) is an early collection by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), published in Moscow in 1922, before she left the country for the West. The book was her most innovative collection to that point, as well as an indication of the way her work would develop in her full maturity as a writer.
Milestones (Vyorsty) is an early collection by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), published in Moscow in 1922, before she left the country for the West. Th...
