On a Red Steed, New Year's Letter, Poem of the Mountain, Poem of the Air, Poem of the End, Attempt at a Room, and selected lyrical poems.
Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1892. Her first volume of
poetry was published in 1910 and attracted notice from some of the
most important critics and poets in Russia, including Maximilian
Voloshin. In 1922, following the Russian Civil War, she went into
exile in Paris, where she became one of the leading writers of the
emigre community. In 1939, she returned to the Soviet Union, and
her husband was arrested shortly thereafter and subsequently
executed by the NKVD. Tsvetaeva committed suicide in Elabuga, a
small town to which she had been evacuated following the onset of
World War II, in 1941. .
Nina Kossman has published two books of poetry and a collection of
short stories, Behind the Border, and she also is the editor of the
anthology Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths.
"A poet of genius." - Vladimir Nabokov; "There has been no more passionate voice in twentieth-century Russian poetry." - Joseph Brodsky"
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