![]() In them she records conversations of women in the markets, soldiers and peasants on the train traveling from the Crimea to Moscow in October 1917, fighting in the streets of Moscow, a frantic scramble with co-workers to dig frozen potatoes out of a cellar, and poetry readings organized by a newly minted Soviet bohemia. The essays collected in this volume are based on diaries she kept during the turbulent years of the Revolution and Civil War. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life buffeted by political upheaval. Marina Tsvetaeva ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poets. Translated from the Russian Jamey Gambrell Do not feel obligated, of course - we’ll keep going regardless! Release dates are based on the U.S. The links to are affiliate links, so if you purchase the book (or any item) by going there from this page, we’ll make a bit of money for the site. Which ones have I missed that you’re excited about? There are! And here are a few I’m excited about. That doesn’t mean, though, that there are no worthwhile books coming out this month. ![]() Because of all of this, December is not a hot publishing month. The holidays have folks looking forward to time off. ![]() ![]() Most publications are looking back, creating “best of the year” lists by now. ![]()
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