![]() ![]() ![]() Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writers' Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship awarded annually by Poetry magazine. ![]() Her poetry stands among the greatest works of twentieth century Russian writers. Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1892 and died in 1941. Take it, church by church-all forty times forty churches,Īnd flying up over them, the small pigeons By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with short pieces of prose, we begin to know her as poet, friend, enemy, woman, lover, and revolutionary.įrom my hands-take this city not made by hands, my strange, my beautiful brother. Via what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call readings-not translations-of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. About the Book Two of America's most passionate poets work magic to unearth the true voice of Tsvetaeva, to open veins. ![]()
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