Head On A Gleaming Plate by Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Christopher Whyte Every Little Sound Learning that there is nowhere

Learning that there is nowhere to run to

Kammerling retraces his Jewish ancestry as poems fluctuate through time and space

Pierre Boulez

hopelessness too

some in exile

Head On A Gleaming Plate by Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Christopher Whyte Every Little Sound Learning that there is nowhereThe poems in this volume were composed between August 1917 and November 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 only on the lyric poems that Tsvetaeva wrote at this time, and their importance should not be underestimated. Each offers a modest, unassuming gateway to the immense world