Living in the Fire

An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva bore witness to the turmoil and devastation of the Revolution, and chronicled her difficult life in exile, sustained by the inspiration and power of her modern verse.

The poems in this selection are drawn from eleven volumes published over thirty years.

The collector of this book, Tsvetan Todorov, is a world-famous philosopher and literary critic, linguist, semiotic specialist, historian of philosophical thought and culturalologist. He is considered one of the world's most prominent intellectuals.