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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 ; introduction by Catherine Ciepiela.
Author
T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941
Publication
Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Phillips, A'Dora
  • Cogan, Gaëlle
Description
1 sheet; 19 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.
Uniform Title
Mon Frère féminin. English
Alternative Title
Mon Frère féminin.
Subject
  • T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941 > Translations into English
  • Barney, Natalie Clifford
  • T͡Svetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941
  • Lesbianism
  • Motherhood
  • Sexual orientation
Genre/Form
Translations.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the French.
Call Number
JX 23-1367
OCLC
1366298830
Author
T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941, author.
Title
Letter to the Amazon / Marina Tsvetaeva ; translated from the French by A'Dora Phillips & Gaëlle Cogan ; introduction by Catherine Ciepiela.
Publisher
Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, [2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
sheet
Language
Translated from the French.
Added Author
Phillips, A'Dora, translator.
Cogan, Gaëlle, translator.
Research Call Number
JX 23-1367
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