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About the first publication
but Mischief
that ‘It befits heroes to be frozen’
Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red
Head On A Gleaming Plate by Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Christopher Whyte Aoife Lyall About the first publicationThe poems in this volume were composed between August 1917 and November 1918, and thus they span the most turbulent period of the 20th century in Russia, as the nascent republic was overthrown by the Bolsheviks, and the country descended into civil war. This collection concentrates only on the lyric poems that Tsvetaeva wrote at this time, and their importance should not be underestimated. Each offers a modest, unassuming gateway to the immense world
