Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry These select essays, most of which have never been available in translation before, display the dazzlingly original prose style and the powerful, dialogic voice of a poet who would like to make art’s mystery accessible without dimini
| TITLE | : | Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.77 (930 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0674048024 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 214 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 1992-05-01 |
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In the Soviet Union, as in the West, Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-4941) is acknowledged to be one of the great Russian poets of the century, along with Mandelstam, Pasternak and Akhmatova. Overnight sensation and oft-times pariah, Tsvetaeva was a poet of extraordinary intensity whose work continues to be discovered by new readers. Yet, while she is considered to be one of the major influences on modern Soviet poetry, few know of her consummate gifts as a writer of prose. These select essays, most of which have never been available in translation before, display the dazzlingly original prose style and the powerful, dialogic voice of a poet who would like to make art’s mystery accessible without diminishing it. The essays provide incomparable insight on poetry, the poetic process, and what it means to be a poet. The volume offers, among many fascinating topics, a celebration of the poetry
EDITORIAL :
From Library Journal In essays Tsvetaeva wrote between 1922 and 1934 while an emigre, she airs gripes about bad criticism and shares her infectious enthusiasm for Russian poetry and poets, including her contemporaries in the Soviet Union. The translation transmits much of the pith of her idiosyncratic prose. In "The Poet on the Critic," she defines the good critic (and she is one) as a "two-faced god, looking backwards and forwards." In "Epic and Lyric of Contemporary Russia," she heaps up contrasting images of Pasternak and Mayakovsky in a tour de force that defines both and diminishes neither. Her memoir of the eccentric Osip Mandelstam is funny and warm ("History of a Dedication"). Also included are 12 of Tsvetaeva's poems that touch on her craft. This book is for poetry lovers.- Mary F. Zirin, Altadena, Cal.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
REVIEW :
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