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Moscow In The Plague Year : Poems

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Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humour, 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 idolising Napoleon, an irrepressibly mischievous grandmother who refuses to apologise to God on Judgment Day and an androgynous (and luminous) Joan of Arc.

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Archipelago Books
1935744968 / 9781935744962
Paperback / softback
14/08/2014
United States
English
180 pages
18 cm
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Translated from the Russian.
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