Moscow in the Plague Year

by Marina Tsvetaeva

Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humor, which undoubtedly accounted for her success in not only reaching the end of the plague year alive, but making it the most productive of her career. We meet a drummer boy idolizing Napoleon, an irrepressibly mischievous grandmother who refuses to apologize to God on Judgment Day, and an androgynous (and luminous)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935744968
• ISBN13: 9781935744962
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Archipelago Books
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 6.9"