Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
By Marina Tsvetaeva.
Description
"A poet of genius."Vladimir NabokovVia what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call "readings"not translationsof fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with short pieces of prose, we begin to know her as poet, friend, enemy, woman, lover, and revolutionary.From "Poems for Moscow (2)":From my handstake this city not made by hands,my strange, my beautiful brother.Take it, church by churchall forty times forty chur...
ISBN(s)
1882295943, 9781882295944
