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Letter to the Amazon RU

Letter to the Amazon
Marina Tsvetaeva
Letter to the Amazon Letter to the Amazon
Information
Realm
Russian
Author
Marina Tsvetaeva
Title
Letter to the Amazon
Paratexts
Introduction by: Catherine Ciepiela
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Ugly Duckling Presse
Date of Publication
2016
Material Type
Book
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
48
OCLC Number
949925634
ISBN
9781937027698
Language
English
Marina Tsvetaeva. Letter to the Amazon. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016.
Description
Like many of Marina 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 dune Amazone (Thoughts of an Amazon). Tsvetaeva uses her essay to emphasize what is to her mind a general truth of lesbian relationships (i.e. they cannot endure because of a woman’s innate desire for a child) and to explore her seemingly 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. With an introduction by Catherine Ciepiela.
Like many of Marina 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 dune Amazone (Thoughts of an Amazon). Tsvetaeva uses her essay to emphasize what is to her mind a general truth of lesbian relationships (i.e. they cannot endure because of a woman’s innate desire for a child) and to explore her seemingly 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. With an introduction by Catherine Ciepiela.