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Classic Russian Poetry
Captivating Lyrical Verses
Powerful Feminine Voice
Acclaimed Author Marina Tsvetaeva
Portable Paperback Format
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Three of the legendary Russian dissident writers greatest poems, two autobiographical and one based on a Russian folktale, now in a new, invigorating English translation.The three poems in this collection, "Backstreets", "Poem of the Mountain" and "Poem of the End," were all written in the few short years spanning the period immediately preceding Tsvetaevas move from the Soviet Union to Prague in 1922. "Poem of the Mountain" and "Poem of the End" are generally considered some of her finest poems and have been translated widely "Backstreets," initially dismissed by Russian readers as nigh unintelligible, is almost unknown in English. Andrew Daviss translation is a first, and it reveals the poem in all in its emotional intensity and poetic pyrotechnics as among Tsvetaevas greatest achievements."Poem of the Mountain" and "Poem of the End" both concern the end of an affair. "Backsteets," by contrast, is a retelling of the Russian folktale of Dobrynya and Marinka. It is a very free retelling, however. In the original story a hero (Dobrynya) is seduced by a witch (Marinka) and turned into an aurochs, the extinct European ancestor to modern cattle. Marinka is then forced by Dobrynyas sister, herself possessed of magic powers, to restore Dobrynya to his original form. This she does, though at the same time extorting from him a promise to marry her in exchange for the restoration. He marries her, but murders her on their wedding night. Almost none of this makes it into...

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Binding: Paperback;120 pages; Publisher: New York Review Books; Classification: DS; Weight: 210 g; Dimensions: 177 x 114 x 9

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