1974-2008 Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva Seven Uncommon Items

Description: Uncommon group (SEVEN) of items by and about the life and works of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva include: Poetry Magazine (Chicago) for July 1974. This is a young Russian poets number and includes a review of Tsvetaeva's "Selected Poems" published by the Oxford University Press. This by Michael Mesic. WITH Poetry Magazine (Chicago) for February 1998. This complete issue offers a new poem by Edward Hirsh called "Marina Tsvetaeva." WITH "A Higher Romance." This is an essay of some interest by the Russian scholar Rachel Polonsky in review of Catherine Ciepiela's "The Same Solitude: Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetarva," published in this year. Much here on the romance between the two and life in Paris (and contacts with Rainer Maria Rilke) in the 1920s. In the London Times Literary Supplement for 3 August 2007. See photos #3 & #4. WITH Poetry Magazine (Chicago) for April 2008. Special "Translation" issue features a poem by Tsvetaeva, here translated by Sasha Dugdale, called "Our sweet companions...sharing your bunk and your bed." WITH The New York Review of Books for 23 October 1980. This complete issue offers a long opening essay (with a caricature of Tsvetaeva by David Levine) by the able British critic John Bayley in review of Tsvetaeva's "The Demesne of the Swans," Ellendea Proffer's "Tsvetaeva: A Pictorial Biography," and of Tsvetaeva's "A Captive Spirit: Selected Poems." It's called "A Poet's Tragedy." WITH The New York Review of Books for 8 October 1987. This complete issue offers another essay on the life and work of Tsvetaeva by John Bayley called "Poet of the Air" in review of Simon Karlinsky's "Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, her World and her Poetry"; of Elaine Feinstein's "A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetaeva"; and, of the Feinstein-translated "Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva." This is an item of some interest. AND The New York Review of Books for 21 December 2006. This complete issue features "Translations of [Anna] Akhmatova (1) and [Marina] Tsvetaeva (2) by Paul Schmidt." Tiny bit of edge wear to wrappers. See photos above. Also, see "1973 Russian Literature" in my EBAY Store for more works by and about Marina Tsvetaeva.

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