Marina Tsvetaeva

Broschiertes Buch

After Russia

Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva

Übersetzer: White, Mary Jane

Beschreibung

"These poems by Tsvetaeva positively scorch the page. What other poet, of this or any century, can match her for ferocity? Wrested from the maelstrom, her imagery alone is a perpetual revelation: unadorned, unprecedented, brutally on target. English-language readers owe a profound debt of gratitude to Mary Jane White for these brilliant translations." -Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI "Mary Jane White's translations reflect her profound commitment to Tsvetaeva. What impresses me most is the consistency and integrity of the poetic voice that emerges from these pages - a voice that echoes Tsvetaeva's tense, resonant Russian but is also entirely, naturally Anglophone."- Boris Dralyuk, co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015) "White's remarkable translations have an empathic genius that not only offers Tsvetaeva in English but anticipates a poetry in American English that has not existed before. Tsvetaeva in English translation becomes Tsvetaeva's English poetry. These translations are works of imaginative discovery--of Tsvetaeva's visionary language as it transforms American poetry with an alien intensity." - Tony Brinkley, Professor of English, University of Maine "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 Mary Jane White is a poet and translator who practiced law at her home, the O. J. Hager House in Waukon, Iowa. She was born and raised in North Carolina, earned degrees from The North Carolina School of the Arts, Reed College, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and studied law at Duke University, graduating from The University of Iowa. Her poetry and translations received NEA Fellowships in 1979 and 1985. She taught lyric poetry and poetry workshops briefly at the University of Iowa and at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and served for a decade as an Iowa Poet in the Schools, before her son, Ruffin, was born in 1991.

Autor

The life of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), now recognised as a major Russian and indeed European poet of the 20th century, was marked to an unusual extent by the political and ideological conflicts of her time. Born to a privileged background in Moscow, the revolutions of 1917 brought her crushing hardship and deprivation, but also ushered in a period of unparalleled creativity as poet and playwright. In 1922 she left for the west to rejoin her husband, who had fought with the counter-revolutionary forces. In 1925 the family moved from near Prague to Paris. Their existence was marked by appalling poverty and a growing alienation from the Russian émigré community. When in 1937 her husband was implicated in an assassination carried out by the Stalinist secret services, Tsvetaeva saw no alternative but to follow him back to the USSR. After the Nazis invaded Russia, she was evacuated to Yelabuga, where she took her own life in August 1941. The publication of well over 1,800 letters, as well as her diaries and notebooks, has revealed her to be a thinker of quite exceptional daring and philosophical profundity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Folioavenue Publishing Service
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781951896973
• ISBN-10: 1951896971
• Artikelnr.: 62821081