Description:
The poems here cover the years 1913-1915, a period of unparalleled freedom in Tsvetaeva's life. Recently married, with a baby daughter, she chronicles in a sequence of astonishing honesty and frankness her love for a slightly older woman poet.
Brief description: Christopher Whyte (1952-) is a poet in Scottish Gaelic, a novelist in English, and the translator into English of Rilke, Pasolini and Tsvetaeva. After pursuing a distinguished academic career in Italy and Scotland, researching and teaching Scottish and Gaelic literature, he took early retirement in 2005 and moved to Budapest, Hungary where he now writes full-time. This is his fifth book of translations from the Russian of Marina Tsvetaeva.