Bride of Ice It Got So Dark to the poet's friends and

to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bars and bedrooms—form a cast of characters capable of addressing desire

Is dit een vrolijke tijd

howl of anger

it’s often hilarious

Bride of Ice It Got So Dark to the poet's friends andMarina Tsvetaeva (trans. Elaine Feinstein) Marina Tsvetaeva is among the great European poets of the twentieth century. With Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, she retained her humanity and integrity through Russia's 'terrible years' of the Great Terror. Even in her long, tragic exile, her roots were in Russia and the great tradition of Russian poetry. Her voice lives in part because it remains alert to her past, and to cultures,