Roland's Horn. Poems 1917-1925 by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Christopher Whyte #Lovepoetry sacred and secular – and

sacred and secular – and

steeped in realism

and many of the poems herein are addressed to his wife

but also about gifts and renewals

and of her own strategies for living as one of them

Roland's Horn. Poems 1917-1925 by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Christopher Whyte #Lovepoetry sacred and secular – andThe years between the twin revolutions of 1917 and Tsvetaeva's departure at the end of April 1922, together with her daughter Alya, for Berlin and then Prague were the most productive of her entire career. In addition to a host of shorter, lyrical items, she wrote the long poems On a Red Steed and Tsar Maiden, the latter a reworking and reimagining of folklore material in characteristically disconcerting and idiosyncratic style. Thanks to a chance