{"product_id":"dark-elderberry-branch-poems-of-marina-tsvetaeva-with-cd-audio-9781882295944","title":"Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva [With CD (Audio)]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A poet of genius.\"--Vladimir Nabokov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVia what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call \"readings\"--not translations--of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with short pieces of prose, we begin to know her as poet, friend, enemy, woman, lover, and revolutionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Poems for Moscow (2)\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom my hands--take this city not made by hands, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emy strange, my beautiful brother.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTake it, church by church--all forty times forty churches, \u003cbr\u003eand flying up over them, the small pigeons;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd Spassky Gates--in their flower--\u003cbr\u003ewhere the Orthodox take off their hats;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd the Chapel of Stars--refuge chapel--\u003cbr\u003ewhere the floor is--polished by tears;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTake the circle of the five cathedrals, \u003cbr\u003emy soul, my holy friend.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarina Tsvetaeva\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Moscow in 1892 and died in 1941. Her poetry stands among the greatest works of twentieth century Russian writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlya Kaminsky\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writers' Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship awarded annually by \u003ci\u003ePoetry \u003c\/i\u003emagazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Valentine\u003c\/b\u003e won the Yale Younger Poets award for \u003ci\u003eDream Barker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is \u003ci\u003eBreak the Glass\u003c\/i\u003e, from Copper Canyon Press. \u003ci\u003eDoor in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ilya Kaminsky, Marina Tsvetaeva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781882295944","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439305953417,"sku":"9781882295944","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5c7818df-189f-4530-b920-946500293446.jpg?v=1716271580","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/dark-elderberry-branch-poems-of-marina-tsvetaeva-with-cd-audio-9781882295944","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}