At the edge : selected political poems of Marina Tsvetaeva / Marina Tsvetaeva ; translated by Margaree Little.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941, Author.

Contributor:

Little, Margaree, translator.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Political poetry, Russian.

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

T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina.

T͡Svetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 120 pages 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grinnell, Iowa : Green Linden Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Marina Tsvetaeva's political poems, a crucial part of her sensibility and life's work, have largely been neglected in English-language translation. Emphasized instead are poems she wrote about her tumultuous personal and romantic relationships, an emphasis that suggests a gendered reading of the poet as an extreme personality, rather than a poet responding to the extremity of her time. In fact, Tsvetaeva was deeply attuned to the political circumstances in which she lived, and she wrote extensively and incisively about them. To erase this part of the poet and her work domesticates and exotifies her and ignores her reality. At the Edge seeks to correct this misreading of Tsvetaeva's work by bringing together a selection of her political poems-many of them never before translated into English-at a moment in our own culture when they are acutely relevant"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Selected early poems. [I know the truth! All the old truths

are gone!]

[White sun and low, low clouds]

[Not my grief, not my concern]

[At night, all the rooms are black]

[No! Even loving hunger]

Poems from The Swan's Encampment. [On your cutlass: Marina

]

[Over the church

blue clouds]

[Scarcely light

[And someone, having fallen on the map]

[Water as blue as the sky]

To the cadets, killed in Nizhny Novgorod

[Night.

Nor'easter.

Roar of soldiers.

Roar of waves.]

[It's bad for the strong and rich]

Kornilov

To Moscow

[Harness the thoroughbreds to a wooden sledge!]

[It goes along the meadows of lithium.]

[It's difficult and beautiful

loyalty until the grave!]

Andř Cȟnier

[God

is right]

[Seven swords pierced the heart]

[

Where are the swans?

The swans are gone.]

[We must be brave enough to admit, Lyre!]

[If the soul was born with wings

[Under the roar of civil storms]

[Cradle, shrouded in red!]

[With a dignifiedly-proud step]

[Over a black abyss of water

To S.E.

[Along the way of the common people]

[I trust this book to the wind]

To Blok

To Peter

[Of the gone

the departed

(The capture of the Crimea)

[Oh, my mushrooms, little mushroom, white mushroom!]

Selected Poems 1919-1934. [And I once was crowned with flowers]

[Stone-chested]

[I'm not prettier, for years of separation!]

[It's not squat

it's tall]

[Tears

on my shabby fox stole!]

[In close formation

[There is an hour for those words.]

[Lethe's underwater light]

[God save smoke!]

Praise to the rich

God

Dawn on the rails

[In the gray air beyond the grave

[And God be with you!]

[Solitude: retreat]

[To the poet, the century hasn't given a thought

Poems to Czechoslovakia. September. 1. [It's full and spacious]

2. [Mountains

to tour and wander!]

3. [There on the map

the place]

4. [One officer]

<5> Homeland

of Radium

March. 1. (Lullaby)

2. Ashes

3. Drum

4. Germany

5. March

6. Took...

7. Forest

8. [Oh, tears in my eyes!]

9. [Not demons

for the monk]

10. People

11. [You will not die, people!]

<12> [Be quiet, Bohemian! It's all over!]

<13> [But most painful of all, oh, most memorable].

Notes:

Translated from the Russian.

ISBN:

9781961834088

1961834081

OCLC:

1604041666

Publisher Number:

90105021127