#Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga

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"You weren’t made for this life" Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

You weren’t made for this life: Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata Translated by Teresa Lavender-Fagan @seagullbooks

It begins as it ends. With a beam, a rope, a chair and a window looking out on a hill, a cypress tree and a potato field. With a heart turned to stone through so many trials. In her stark, poetic elegy The Last Days of Mandelstam, Lebanese-French poet and writer, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, aimed to bear witness to the final days and hours of Osip Mandelstam’s life that had passed unrecorded in a transit…

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Hi, could you share some books or resources about Marina Tsvetaeva's poetry? I am writing a paper on her! Thank you :)

hello! what I've read about her and her writings were mainly written in Russian. these are the ones i could find in English:

Marina Tsvetaeva: To Die in Yelabuga by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan)

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell by Lily Feiler

and some of her poetry

My Poems: Selected Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva: Seventy-five Selected Poems

Selected Poems: Marina Tsvetaeva

many of her poems can also be found here

good luck with your paper!