Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva

She said she was a very beleaguered mother . . . . not a great housekeeper or organizer domestically at all. I'm really very bad at it. So there were three small children and a...

An edition of 1981 added the literal versions of the original poems by Angela Livingstone on which Feinstein relied for her renderings into poetry. An enlarged edition followed in 1986, and a fourth edition was...

This volume (with epigraph from William Carlos Williams ) includes more Mad Cow poems, together with a number of animal poems, like Pig, Hedgehog, Rhinoceros. JS 's intensely sensuous imagination issues in...

The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan , via Charles Baudelaire , T. S. Eliot

EF wrote her first poems at play, while she bounced tennis balls against the garage door. When she showed one to a teacher and it appeared in the school magazine, she became hooked for life...

Writing through the turmoils of the twentieth century, AA (Anna of all the Russias as she was solemnly called by her fellow poet Marina Tsvetaeva ) was one of the greatest poets of Russian...

These translations have been much admired. Ellendea Proffer wrote in the New York Times Book Review that they are certainly . . . the best translations available (a compliment that ignores the dearth of competition)....

The tone is set by Urban Lyric, which relates poetry to survival: the gaunt lady of the service wash, because she has just come through an operation for cancer, is made alert to the...

This collection provides an opportunity to consider EF 's earlier poetry-writing decades as a whole. Her vision is centred in everyday life, but that includes the continued presence of the past, of artists living and...

In the poemWhy NotGA ponders the relationship between women's writing, the ambiguity of language, and the seduction of suicide. The speaker (presumably GA ) imaginatively places herself in the subject-position of Virginia Woolf

The poet-narrator revisits the Russia of the 1930s and meets the great writers who rule her imagination, under the guidance of Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva , as Dante describes meeting the great dead under the...

The translations are from Marina Tsvetayeva . EF 's own topics notably include women's lives, the struggle to fill expected roles like those of wife and mother, and the play of conflicting emotions.

It was the discovery of Marina Tsvetayeva and other Russian poets, says EF ,which did most to...

EF 's radio plays are more numerous still: Echoes, 1980, A Late Spring, 1982, A Day Off, 1983 (from the novella of that name from Storm Jameson 's Women against Men...

The title comes from Marina Tsvetayeva , who applied this Tsarist title to Akhmatova to suggest her power to speak for her people, and their admiration of her.