The poems in this volume were composed between August 1917 and
October 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 on the lyric poems that Tsvetaeva wrote at
this time, whose importance should not be underestimated. Each
offers a modest, unassuming gateway to the immense world of her
imagination and her travailed, eternally questioning and endangered
humanity, even those with a missing word or phrase she did not find
the time to locate and craft amidst the overwhelming flow of
inspiration. Like the events which formed their background, these
poems raise ethical and human issues to which no simple answers can
be found. And when Tsvetaeva announces, as the winter of 1918-1919
approaches, that 'It befits heroes to be frozen', she prompts us to
consider the nature of her own, personal heroism at a stage when
the very worst was still to come.
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