Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Rainer Maria Rilke

Marina T︠S︡vetaeva

Edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond, exchanging a series of searching letters in which every aspect of life and work is discussed with extraordinary intensity and passion. Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters, Summer 1926

Two of America's most passionate poets work magic to unearth the true voice of Tsvetaeva, to "open [her] veins."

Dark Elderberry Branch

Andrey Kneller

Bilingual Edition of selected poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva.

My Poems

Select essays, most of which have never been available in translation before, display the dazzlingly original prose style and the powerful, dialogic voice of a poet who would like to make art's mystery accessible without diminishing it. The essays provide incomparable insight on poetry, the poetic process, and what it means to be a poet. The volume offers, among many fascinating topics, a celebration of the poetry of Pasternak and reflections on the lives and works of.

Eight Essays on Poetry

Art in the Light of Conscience

"Poetry Book Society recommended translation"--Cover.

New Selected Poems

Bride of Ice

Demesne of the Swans

Representative selections of the Russian poet's work reveal her technical skill and lyrical power

Selected Poems

Selected Prose

A Captive Spirit

During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang herself in 1941. This comprehensive selection of Tsvetayeva's poetry includes complete versions of all her major long poems and poem cycles: Poem of the End, An Attempt at a Room, Poems to Czechia and New Year Letter. It was the first English translation to use the new, definitive Russica text of her work. It also includes additional versions ascribed to F.F. Morton which first appeared in The New Yorker: these rhyming translations are actually the work of Joseph Brodsky (who lived at 44 Morton Street in New York).

1917-1937

Izbrannai︠a︡ proza

Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ i poėmy

Марина Ивановна Цветаева

Собрание сочинений в семи томах

ein Gespräch in Briefen

Rainer Maria Rilke und Marina Zwetajeva

lettere, 1909-1925

Il paese dell'anima

lettere 1925-1941

Deserti luoghi

Collects a representative sampling of the poems of the distinguished Russian author, Marina Tsvetayeva

Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva

" C'est le seul point faillible, le seul point attaquable, la seule brèche dans cette entité parfaite que sont deux femmes qui s'aiment. L'impossible, ce n'est pas de résister à la tentation de l'homme, mais au besoin de l'enfant. " Ce texte de Marina Tsvétaïéva (1892-1941) sur l'amour des femmes entre elles est adressé à Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) en réponse à ses Pensées d'une amazone (1918). Avec son génie libre, sa faculté poétique éclatante, sa langue française d'une sublime beauté, Mon frère féminin est l'un des plus beaux textes lesbiens à ce jour. Marina Tsvétaïéva analyse en profondeur l'amour féminin et s'attache, en particulier, à définir les manques et les inquiétudes de deux femmes qui s'aiment sans qu'il leur soit possible d'avoir un enfant. Transcendant son propos, Marina Tsvétaïéva nous offre des pages inoubliables sur la femme, l'homme, l'amour et la vie.

lettre à l'amazone

Mon frère féminin

Selected Poems [of] Marina Tsvetayeva

Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Mary Jane White. "On April 12, 1926 Boris Pasternak wrote a letter of introduction for Marina Tsvetaeva to Rainer Maria Rilke, providing Rilke with Tsvetaeva's address in the Parisian suburb of Bellevue where she was then living in exile. Rilke responded on May 3 with a first letter to Tsvetaeva, covering autographed copies of his Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Oprpheus. Throughout that summer the three poets wrote to each other. In his fourth letter to Tsvetaeva, June 8, Rilke enclosed a poem he wrote that day for her. 'Elegie.' When Rilke died to Leukemia in December 29, 1926, Tsvetaeva learned of his death from Mark Slonim, who asked her to write a piece for the Russian emigre press. Instead, she wrote this elegy, 'NEW YEAR'S, ' drawing heavily upon both the correspondence of that summer and Rilke's poem to her"--from the Translator's Introduction

An Elegy for Rilke

New Year's

Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the Russian by A'Dora Phillips & Gaelle Cogan. Introduction by Catherine Ciepiela. Like many of Marina Tsvetaeva's essays and poems, LETTER TO THE AMAZON is addressed to another writer, in this case Natalie Clifford Barney, a wealthy American expatriate in Paris. Though written in 1932, Tsvetaeva's letter was in response to what Barney said about lesbian relationships and motherhood in her 1920 Pensees dune Amazone (Thoughts of an Amazon). Tsvetaeva uses her essay to emphasize what is to her mind a general truth of lesbian relationships (i.e. they cannot endure because of a woman's innate desire for a child) and to explore her seemingly agonized feelings about Sophia Parnok, the Russian poet with whom she fell in love in 1914, when Tsvetaeva was twenty-two and Parnok twenty-nine."

Marina T︠S︡vetaeva

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