After Russia: The First Notebook by Marina Tsvetaeva (trans. Christopher Whyte) Carcanet How often is it that

How often is it that a poet with the name recognition factor and critical standing of Salena Godden publishes their frst collection 20 years into their career

yet infused with darker undercurrents and nightmarish imagery

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MacKay's introduction is itself a masterpiece of literary placement and his intelligent selection of Plomer's work will go far in assuring this twentieth-century master his rightful place in the canon

Stephen Mitchell and Alastair Reid

After Russia: The First Notebook by Marina Tsvetaeva (trans. Christopher Whyte) Carcanet How often is it thatAfter Russia (1928) is considered to mark the high point in Marina Tsvetaevas output of shorter, lyrical poems. Tsvetaeva told Boris Pasternak that all that mattered in the book was its anguish. Breathtaking technical mastery and experimentation are underpinned by suicidal thoughts, a sense of exclusion from the circle of human love and companionship, and an increasing alienation from life itself. The sequence Trees evokes the hills and woods of