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Letter to the Amazon
- Title
- Letter to the Amazon / Marina Tsvetaeva ; translated from the French by A'Dora Phillips & Gaëlle Cogan.
- Author
- T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, [2016]
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-2803 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 31 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Like many of Tsvetaeva's essays and poems, Letter to the Amazon is addressed to another writer, in this case Natalie Clifford Barney, a wealthy American expatriate in Paris. Though written in 1932, Tsvetaeva's letter was in response to what Barney said about lesbian relationships and motherhood in her 1920 Pensées d'une Amazone (Thoughts of an Amazon). Tsvetaeva uses her essay to emphasize what is to her mind a general truth of lesbian relationships--that they cannot endure because of a woman's innate desire for a child-- and to explore her agonized feelings about Sophia Parnok, the Russian poet with whom she fell in love in 1914, when Tsvetaeva was twenty-two and Parnok twenty-nine. A new introduction by scholar Catherine Ciepiela contextualizes the essay for contemporary audiences.
- Series Statement
- Eastern European Poets Series ; #41
- Uniform Title
- Mon frère féminin. English
- Eastern European poets series ; #41.
- Alternative Title
- Mon frère féminin.
- Subject
- Note
- "First published in French as Mon frère féminin (Mercure de France, 1979)"--Leaf preceding title page.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-2803
- ISBN
- 9781937027698
- 1937027694
- OCLC
- 949925634
- Author
- T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941, author.
- Title
- Letter to the Amazon / Marina Tsvetaeva ; translated from the French by A'Dora Phillips & Gaëlle Cogan.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Eastern European Poets Series ; #41Eastern European poets series ; #41.
- Added Author
- Phillips, A'Dora, translator.Cogan, Gaëlle, translator.Ciepiela, Catherine, writer of introduction.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-2803