Literary roundup: Poets of our mad, transitory world
“To your mad world—one answer: I refuse.”
- from new translations by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine of Marina Tsvetaeva’s “Poems to Czechoslovakia”
The latest issue of Poetry magazine features a number of selections of the work of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva. I will soon be writing something about Tsvetaeva’s brief but impactful time living in Prague.
Photo - cover of Tadeusz Różewicz’s Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems