Marina Tsvetaeva

Selected Poems (eBook, ePUB)

Marina Tsvetaeva

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Produktbeschreibung

During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang herself in 1941.

This comprehensive selection of Tsvetayeva's poetry includes complete versions of all her major long poems and poem cycles: Poem of the End, An Attempt at a Room, Poems to Czechia and New Year Letter. It was the first English translation to use the new, definitive Russica text of her work. It also includes additional versions ascribed to F.F. Morton which first appeared in The New Yorker: these rhyming translations are actually the work of Joseph Brodsky (who lived at 44 Morton Street in New York).

'Tsvetayeva is one of the great poets of the century and David McDuff's translations are very good. This is all the more remarkable because, like the poems they translate, they rhyme. There are overlaps with Elaine Feinstein's excellent but unrhyming translations of the same poet, but not too many. McDuff conveys Tsvetyeva's commitment to poetry's musical force, Feinstein substitutes a beautifully nuanced syntax for music; Tsvetayeva shines and appals in both' - Martin Dodsworth, Guardian

'It must be said right away that those who want to have an inkling of what Tsvetayeva is actually like, and that includes her form, her rhyme, and the tone of that accompanies form and rhyme, will have to go to McDuff. His diligence with metre and rhyme is remarkably successful, and is the only proper tribute to the poet's linguistic virtuosity. Readers may find that Feinstein comes across more fluently, but that fluency is not Tsvetaevan. McDuff has caught her abruptness, her veering and tacking, and has tried to show something of the curious modern music this produces - "modern" not through free verse but by dint of straining traditional patterns to breaking point' - Cencrastus

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
• Seitenzahl: 161
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780372303
• Artikelnr.: 42428438

Autorenporträt

Lars Gustafsson is one of ScandinaviaâEUR(TM)s best-known authors. Born in VÿsterÃ¥s, Sweden, in 1936, he published his first novel Vÿgvila: ett mysteriespel pÃ¥ prosa (Rest on the Way: A Mystery Play in Prose), at the age of 21. He is one of the most prolific Swedish writers since August Strindberg. Since the late 1950s he has produced a voluminous flow of poetry, novels, short stories, critical essays, and articles, gaining international recognition with literary awards such as the Prix International Charles Veillon des Essais in 1983, the Heinrich Steffens Preis in 1986, Una Vita per la Litteratura in 1989, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for poetry in 1994, as well as a Nobel nomination. His best-known novel âEUR" championed by John Updike âEUR" is The Death of a Beekeeper (1968). Previous English translations of his poetry published in the US include The Stillness of the World Before Bach (1988), Elegies and Other Poems (2000) from New Directions, and A Time in Xanadu (2008) from Copper Canyon. His Bloodaxe Selected Poems (2015) is his first UK poetry publication and is a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. From 1983 he served as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught Philosophy and Creative Writing, until retiring in 2006, and has held several visiting lectureships and residencies in Germany. He now divides his time between Stockholm and northern Vÿstmanland, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected PoemsList of Collaborators
Introduction
POEMS
I know the truth
What is this gypsy passion for separation
We shall not escape Hell
Some ancestor of mine
I'm glad your sickness
We are keeping an eye on the girls
No one has taken anything away
You throw back your head
Where does this tenderness come from?
Bent with worry
Today or tomorrow the snow will melt
VERSES ABOUT MOSCOW
From INSOMNIA
POEMS FOR AKHMATOVA
POEMS FOR BLOK
A kiss on the head
From SWANS' ENCAMPMENT
Yesterday he still looked in my eyes
To Mayakovsky
Praise to the Rich
God help us Smoke!
Ophelia: in Defence of the Queen
Wherever you are I can reach you
From WIRES
Sahara
The Poet
Appointment
Rails
You loved me
It's not like waiting for post
My ear attends to you
As people listen intently
Strong doesn't mate with strong
In a world
POEM OF THE MOUNTAIN
POEM OF THE END
An Attempt at Jealousy
To Boris Pasternak
From THE RATCATCHER:
From Chapter 1
From Chapter 2: Dreams
From The Children's Paradise
From POEMS TO A SON
Homesickness
I opened my veins
Epitaph
Readers of Newspapers
Desk
Bus
When I look at the flight of the leaves
From POEMS TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Notes on Working Method: Angela Livingstone
Notes