Poem of the End: Selected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry : With Facing Russian Text
Earthly Signs
by Marina Tsvetaeva
from Yale University Press
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life beset by loss and hardship. This volume presents for the first time in English a collection of essays published in the Russian émigré press after Tsvetaeva left Moscow in 1922. Based on diaries she kept from 1917 to 1920, Earthly Signs describes the broad social, economic, and cultural chaos provoked by the Bolshevik Revolution. Events and individuals are seen through the lens of her personal experience -- that of a destitute young woman of upper-class background with two small children (one of whom died of starvation), a missing husband, and no means of support other than her poetry.
These autobiographical writings, rich sources of information on Tsvetaeva and her literary contemporaries, are also significant for the insights they provide into the sources and methodology of her difficult poetic language. In addition, they supply a unique eyewitness account of a dramatic period in Russian history, told by a gifted and outspoken poet.
The Ratcatcher (European Poetry Classics)
by Marina Tsvetaeva
from Northwestern University Press
Milestones: A Bilingual Edition (European Poetry Classics)
by Marina Tsvetaeva
from Northwestern University Press
Milestone is a bilingual edition of a diary in verse from one of the great Russian poets.
Starry Sky to Starry Sky
Art in the Light of Conscience
Sochineniia Vol. 2: Tomakh
Selected Poems (Oxford Poets (Manchester, England).)
by Marina Tsvetaeva
from Carcanet Press,
Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry
by Marina Tsvetaeva
from Harvard University Press
Selected Poems (Oxford Poets)
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