Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems

by Marina Tsvetaeva and Christopher Whyte

Christopher Whyte (Translator)

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Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humor, which undoubtedly accounted for her success in not only reaching the end of the plague year alive, but making it the most productive of her career. We meet a drummer boy idolizing Napoleon, an irrepressibly mischievous grandmother who refuses to apologize to God on Judgment Day, and an androgynous (and luminous) Joan of Arc.

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  • ISBN10 1935744968
  • ISBN13 9781935744962
  • Publish Date 12 August 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 8 September 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Archipelago Books