Three by Tsvetaeva

By: Marina Tsvetaeva

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Synopsis: Three of the legendary Russian dissident writer's greatest poems, two autobiographical and one based on a Russian folktale, now in a new, invigorating English translation. Three by Tsvetaeva collects three dazzling and devastating reckonings with love and the end of love by a poet celebrated for the unequaled verbal inventiveness and emotional intensity of her work. &“Backstreets,&” translated into English for the first time, is a retelling of a Russian fairy tale that offers a witches&’ brew of temptation, bodily transformation, marriage, and murder. &“Poem of the Mountain&” and &“Poem of the End,&” perhaps the most celebrated of Marina Tsvetaeva&’s poetic sequences, explore the shifting dynamics of a love affair. The voices of the lovers, the voice of the narrator, and the voice of poetry combine and recombine, circle each other and split, engaging the reader in a constantly shifting spectrum of emotion, from unbridled passion to rawest grief, and discovering at last a strange triumph in loss. Andrew Davis&’s translations of Tsvetaeva bring out the wild brilliance of an incomparable artist.