{"product_id":"selected-poems-isbn-9780140187595","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva was a witness to the political turmoil and the social devastation wrought by the Russian Revolution and a powerfully inspired chronicler of a difficult life and exile sustained by poetry. Pasternak \"was immediately overcome by the immense lyrical power of her poetic form. It... had spring living from experience—personal, and neither narrow-chested nor short of breath from line to line but rich and compact and enveloping\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Selected PoemsList of Collaborators\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePOEMS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know the truth\u003cbr\u003eWhat is this gypsy passion for separation\u003cbr\u003eWe shall not escape Hell\u003cbr\u003eSome ancestor of mine\u003cbr\u003eI'm glad your sickness\u003cbr\u003eWe are keeping an eye on the girls\u003cbr\u003eNo one has taken anything away\u003cbr\u003eYou throw back your head\u003cbr\u003eWhere does this tenderness come from?\u003cbr\u003eBent with worry\u003cbr\u003eToday or tomorrow the snow will melt\u003cbr\u003eVERSES ABOUT MOSCOW\u003cbr\u003eFrom INSOMNIA\u003cbr\u003ePOEMS FOR AKHMATOVA\u003cbr\u003ePOEMS FOR BLOK\u003cbr\u003eA kiss on the head\u003cbr\u003eFrom SWANS' ENCAMPMENT\u003cbr\u003eYesterday he still looked in my eyes\u003cbr\u003eTo Mayakovsky\u003cbr\u003ePraise to the Rich\u003cbr\u003eGod help us  Smoke!\u003cbr\u003eOphelia: in Defence of the Queen\u003cbr\u003eWherever you are I can reach you\u003cbr\u003eFrom WIRES\u003cbr\u003eSahara\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet\u003cbr\u003eAppointment\u003cbr\u003eRails\u003cbr\u003eYou loved me\u003cbr\u003eIt's not like waiting for post\u003cbr\u003eMy ear attends to you\u003cbr\u003eAs people listen intently\u003cbr\u003eStrong doesn't mate with strong\u003cbr\u003eIn a world\u003cbr\u003ePOEM OF THE MOUNTAIN\u003cbr\u003ePOEM OF THE END\u003cbr\u003eAn Attempt at Jealousy\u003cbr\u003eTo Boris Pasternak\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom THE RATCATCHER:\u003cbr\u003eFrom Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003eFrom Chapter 2: \u003ci\u003eDreams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Children's Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom POEMS TO A SON\u003cbr\u003eHomesickness\u003cbr\u003eI opened my veins\u003cbr\u003eEpitaph\u003cbr\u003eReaders of Newspapers\u003cbr\u003eDesk\u003cbr\u003eBus\u003cbr\u003eWhen I look at the flight of the leaves\u003cbr\u003eFrom POEMS TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Working Method: Angela Livingstone\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarina Tsvetaeva\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Moscow in 1892, the daughter of a pianist and a museum curator. After enjoying a relatively secure and comfortable childhood, she published her first poems in 1910 and in 1911 married fellow poet Sergei Efron. They had two daughters before the Russian revolution broke out, and it was at that time she began to experience the turmoil and brutality of early twentieth-century Russia. During the years of famine that ensued, she was forced to place her daughters in a State orphanage, where one of them died of malnutrition. Tsvetaeva later followed her husband to Czechoslovakia, where they lived in exile until Efron’s return to Russia in 1937. Efron subsequently was arrested and died in a labor camp. Tsvetaeva returned to Russia with their son in 1939 but was driven to despair by the difficulty of finding food for the both of them, and, in 1941, she hanged herself. Along with Pasternak, Mandelstam, and Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva stands as one of the four great Russian poets of this century and is one of the most important woman writers in the Western canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElaine Feinstein\u003c\/b\u003e is a prizewinning poet and novelist and the author of highly praised biographies of Alexander Pushkin, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Ted Hughes. She lives in London.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303424643301,"sku":"NP9780140187595","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140187595.jpg?v=1767736316","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/selected-poems-isbn-9780140187595","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}