Selected Poems (Tsvetaeva, Marina) (Twentieth-Century Classics)
 

Selected Poems (Tsvetaeva, Marina) (Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Maria Tsvetaeva

"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. Tsvetaeva led a life that was a history of loss: she watched the devastation of her country by a revolution she did not support; during the... (read more)

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  • Mark B
    • Rated 5 stars

    Doomed Russian poet--is that a redundancy?--she had an amazing ability to find simple moments in life and charge them with emotion. Even in translation, this poet's work is moving and disturbing.

    Mark B wrote this review Friday, September 12 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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