{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1892 and died in 1941. Her poetry stands among the greatest works of twentieth century Russian writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIlya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived in the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDancing In Odessa\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. In 2008, Kaminsky was awarded the Lannan Foundation's Literary Fellowship, and in 2009, poems from his manuscript, \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, were awarded \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's Levinson Prize. Currently, Kaminsky teaches Contemporary World Poetry, Creative Writing, and Literary Translation in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, \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. Her previous collection, \u003ci\u003eLittle Boat\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Wesleyan in 2007. \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. The recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia. She was the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 until 2010.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525162766610,"sku":"9781882295944","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a2716bb-0e19-421d-b151-59aadefce295.jpg?v=1731205225","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-elderberry-branch-poems-of-marina-tsvetaeva-with-cd-audio-9781882295944","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}