About this title: "Milestones" is an apt title for this collection, for the 84 poems within show a poet passing from mere talent into mastery of her craft. Composed between January and December 1916, these poems find the 24-year-old Tsvetaeva thirsting for the fullness of life while at the same time contemplating the inevitability of death - a theme she was to revisit many times in her career. Tsvetaeva's work of the time also reflects her knowledge of (and pride in) her native culture, especially the centrality of Moscow - which was the ultimate destination of all Russians. Throughout these verses she opens ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NORTHWESTERN UNIV PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780810119413ISBN:0810119412
Description: New. Milestones is an apt title for this collection, for the eighty-four poems within show a poet passing from mere talent into mastery of her craft. Composed between January and December of 1916, these poems find the twenty-four year-old Tsvetaeva thirst... read more
Edition: First English language edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780810119413ISBN:0810119412
Description: Fine. 225 pp. 8vo, perfect-bound in wrappers. Bilingual edition of Tsvetaeva's 1922 book, Versty. read more
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