Bride of ice : new selected poems / Marina Tsvetaeva ; translated with an introduction by Elaine Feinstein ; from literal versions by Daisy Cockburn [and 9 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941, author.

Contributor:

Feinstein, Elaine, translator, author of introduction.

Cockburn, Daisy, translator.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941--Translations into English.

T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina.

T͡Svetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations

Physical Description:

xx, 166 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Revised and enlarged sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Classics, 2023.

Summary:

Marina Tsvetaeva is among the great European poets of the twentieth century. With Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, she retained her humanity and integrity through Russia's 'terrible years' of the Great Terror. Even in her long, tragic exile, her roots were in Russia and the great tradition of Russian poetry. Her voice lives in part because it remains alert to her past, and to cultures, especially French, where she spent her exile. When Elaine Feinstein first read Tsvetaeva's poems in the 1960s, they transformed her. Their intensity and honesty spoke to her directly. To her first translations, published to acclaim in 1971, she added in later years, not least the sequence 'Girlfriend', dedicated to her lover Sofia Parnok. Feinstein published Tsvetaeva's biography in 1987.

Notes:

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references.

"First published as Selected poems in 1971 by Oxford University Press ; revised, enlarged and reissued 1981, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2009"--Title page verso.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781800172272

1800172273

OCLC:

1350640281