Selected Poems

by Marina Tsvetaeva

2021-01-09 03:46:37

An acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poetAn 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 ... Read more
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"

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Book Details

File size7.77 X 5.03 X 0.44 in
Print pages160
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date December 15, 1993
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780140187595
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ( 8 Oct [O.S. 26 Sep] 1892 – 31 Aug 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through a...

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