MOSCOW IN THE PLAGUE YEAR

📗 Deeply admired by Rainer Maria Rilke and Vladimir Nabokov, Tsvetaeva is widely considered one of the most important poets of twentieth century Russia. In these mordantly funny poems, we meet a drummer boy idolizing Napoleon; an irrepressibly mischievous grandmother, who refuses to apologize to God on judgment day; and a Joan of Arc whose androgyny only renders her more fascinating.