Roland's Horn. Poems 1917-1925 by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Christopher Whyte #Lovepoetry but also about gifts and

but also about gifts and renewals

steeped in realism

In the book-length poem

‘Selima is like our very own Emily Dickinson

sacred and secular – and

Roland's Horn. Poems 1917-1925 by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Christopher Whyte #Lovepoetry but also about gifts 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