about the author
Marina Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet born in Moscow. At the age of eighteen, she published her first collection of poems, Evening Album. Her early works explore topics including gender in construction of identity and the protection of individual right to self-expression. She wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces throughout her life, and is considered one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century.
about the translator
DoubleSpeak’s staff is a group of poetry lovers and language aficionados. We hail from Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD; Rockville, MD; Columbus, OH; Bronxville, NY; as well as Toronto, Ontario; Shanghai, China; Toyko, Japan; and Beirut, Lebanon. On Thursday nights, you can find us in the Kelly Writers House reading through beautiful poetry submissions. Whether we’re playing multilingual Scrabble or commenting on submissions in rhymed couplets, we’re drawn together by our shared passion for language and translation.
Thank you to all of our proofreaders in the DoubleSpeak community who made this group translation possible!
photo by Tsubasa Somasundaram Inada
