About this title: This selection of poems by major Russian poet Tsvetaeva includes some of her earliest offerings, drawn from her 1910 collection EVENING ALBUM, written when she was 18, through compositions of the Stalinist era in which she was ostracized. In her innovative verse, the bittersweet celebration of Old Russia, as well as the tragedy of living abroad as ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plume, New York
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780525482833ISBN:0525482830
Description: Good. 0525482830 Solid retired library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Elaine Feinstein's translations of Tsvetayeva have been greatly admired. Charles Tomlinson, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, describes how 'the sense of inner pressure' in the poet-translator herself 'makes vivid those versions...translations that embody for us the tortured years of pre-and post-revolutionary Russia, and ... read more
Edition: 1st American
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dutton, New York
Date Published: c1986
ISBN-13:9780525482833ISBN:0525482830
Description: Near fine, trade paper, pict. black covers. Clean, tight. 108 pgs, ISBN: 0-525-48283-0. Trans: Elaine Feinstein w/ literal versions by Angela Livingstone, et al. Blurb: George Steiner. read more
Edition: F First American Edition
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: E P Dutton, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780525482833ISBN:0525482830
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7�"-9�" tall A tight reading copy. Ink notes to the Contents page, highlighting to a few of the poems. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 1987-08-31
ISBN-13:9780525482833ISBN:0525482830
Description: Good. COLLECTIBLE! 1st "this is a new + enlarged edition of 'Marina Tsvetayeva: Selected Poems' 1st published 10 years ago" w/24 pages of new poems added from Tsvetayeva's later work; "...among the best readers + translators we have of modern Russian verse...everything she has published is instinct w/caring, with a rare intelligence of pain"--George Steiner; good plus to very good (only real flaw is the small whiteouts) collectible copy of 21-year-old out-of-print poetry paperback. read more
Description: Good. 0525482830 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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