Product Description: "A poet of genius."—Vladimir NabokovVia what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call "readings"—not translations—of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers...read more

Product Description: " .. .1 have no love for life as such; for me it begins to have significance, i.e., to acquire meaning and weight, only when it is transformed, i.e., in art. If I were taken beyond the sea­ into paradise-and forbidden to write, I would refuse the sea and paradise...read more

Product Description: Book by tsvetaeva, marina (author) ; gambrell, jamey (editor)

Product Description: Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam, and Pasternak. Her richly diverse essays provide incomparable insights into poetry, the poetic process, and what it means to be a poet...read more

Product Description: Intensely emotional and honest, this collection of searing poems about love, loss, jealousy, and fear, explores the literary and social landscape of post revolutionary Russia. Sharply addressing the conflicts between the life of a poet and that of a mother and wife, this enlarged volume, masterfully translated, includes five major poem sequences, one of which was written in 1915 for the poet's lover Sofia Parnok and another in response to poet Rainer Maria Rilke's death...read more

Product Description: Though they never met, Marina Tsvetaeva and Rainer Maria Rilke admired each other's work. They corresponded extensively in the last year of Rilke's life, 1926. When he died, Tsvetaeva was asked to write about him for the Russian émigré press in Paris, where she was living in exile...read more

Product Description: Marina Tsvetaeva is acknowledged today as one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, a masterful innovator who produced a remarkable body of work before her untimely death in 1941. This bilingual collection contains six of her acclaimed narrative poems, as well as a selection of lyrics, most translated into English for the first time...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The Ratcatcher, Marina Tsvetaeva's masterpiece, is a satirical version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend in the form of a complex narrative poem that bears all the marks of Tsvetaeva's poetic style. Written in 1926, it was not available in Russia until 1965, and has hitherto been virtually unknown in English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exiled in Paris and isolated in the émigré community during this period, Tsvetaeva became increasingly aware of the importance of biography, history, and myth. Her famous portraits of the poets Maximilian Voloshin and Andrei Bely reveal her remarkable capacities as an eyewitness, while her moving accounts of her father and mother, sisters and brother, seen through a child’s eyes, comprise the most lyrical of family chronicles...read more

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Product Description: n this dual-edition collection, a first full-length presentation of Mary Jane White's poetry along with a substantial group of translations from the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva--possibly the most important Russian poet of the 20th Century...read more

Product Description: "There are four of us," wrote Anna Akhmatova, naming Marina Tsvetaeva, with herself, Pasternak and Mandelstam as the poets who during what Blok called `the terrible years' in Russia continued to express in their work the deepest values of their country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)