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“Marina Tsvetaeva’s syntactically condensed, syncopated verse, the ‘Russianness’ of her cultural allusions, the emotional pitch of her voice and the relative paucity of such shadings in English, present nearly insurmountable difficulties that make her, in my opinion, the most ‘untranslatable’ of Russian poets. Brodsky valued Tsvetaeva's gift above all others in modern Russian verse. Akhmatova's sense of her adroitness speaks volumes: ‘In comparison with Pushkin and Tsvetaeva, I'm just a little cow.’ Mary Jane White's life-long engagement with Tsvetaeva and her own remarkable gifts as a poet give this volume genuine depth, breath, and voice.” -Alex Cigale, NEA Fellow in Literary Translation, Author of Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings

ISBN 1951896971Binding Paperback