Book record
In the Inmost Hour of the Soul
Marina Tsvetayeva
Translated from Russian by Nina Kossman
In the Inmost Hour of the Soul, by Marina Tsvetayeva, is a poetry collection from Russia, translated by Nina Kossman, published by Humana Press. It is a Russian collection by Marina Tsvetayeva that announces itself from the deepest chamber of lyric pressure. Tsvetayeva's work is not merely emotional; it feels built out of extremity, address, appetite, and an almost dangerous faith in utterance. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Russia. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia