Three by Tsvetaeva
$31.90
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2024
Summary
Three by Tsvetaeva collects three dazzling and devastating reckonings with love and the end of love by a poet celebrated for the unequaled verbal inventiveness and emotional intensity of her work.
“Backstreets,” translated into English for the first time, is a retelling of a Russian fairy tale that offers a witches’ brew of temptation, bodily transformation, marriage, and murder.
“Poem of the Mountain” and “Poem of the End,” perhaps the most celebrated of Marina Tsvetaeva’s po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681378329 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681378329 |
| Author: | Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrew Davis |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Poets |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
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Critics Review
Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
“These translations convey Tsvetaeva’s passion and intellectual verve. At times, as when reading the original, I feel I am witnessing some mysterious process of language itself being created anew.” —Robert Chandler
About The Author
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was born in Moscow and published her first book of poems at seventeen. Tsvetaeva left Russia in 1922 with her two children and her husband, Sergei Efron, who fought against the Red Army in the 1918-1921 Civil War but was later to become a Soviet spy. Often living from hand to mouth, the family remained abroad until 1939. Two years later, after the execution of her husband and the arrest of her daughter, Tsvetaeva committed suicide. Along with numerous lyrics, her works include several extraordinary long poems, among them The Poem of the End, The Poem of the Mountain, and The Ratcatcher.
Andrew Davis is a poet, cabinetmaker, and visual artist. His current project is the long poem IMPLUVIUM. He divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the north coast of Spain.
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