Brodsky valued Tsvetaeva's gift above all others in modern Russian verse. 'Marina Tsvetaeva's syntactically condensed, syncopated verse, the 'Russianness' of her cultural allusions, the emotional pitch of her voice and the relative paucity of such shadings in English, present nearly insurmountable difficulties that make her, in my opinion, the most 'untranslatable' of Russian poets. These translations are works of imaginative discovery-of Tsvetaeva's visionary language as it transforms American poetry with an alien intensity.' - Tony Brinkley, Professor of English, University of Maine Tsvetaeva in English translation becomes Tsvetaeva's English poetry. 'White's remarkable translations have an empathic genius that not only offers Tsvetaeva in English but anticipates a poetry in American English that has not existed before. What impresses me most is the consistency and integrity of the poetic voice that emerges from these pages - a voice that echoes Tsvetaeva's tense, resonant Russian but is also entirely, naturally Anglophone.'- Boris Dralyuk, co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015)

'Mary Jane White's translations reflect her profound commitment to Tsvetaeva. English-language readers owe a profound debt of gratitude to Mary Jane White for these brilliant translations.' -Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI What other poet, of this or any century, can match her for ferocity? Wrested from the maelstrom, her imagery alone is a perpetual revelation: unadorned, unprecedented, brutally on target. 'These poems by Tsvetaeva positively scorch the page.

My Poems... by Marina Tsvetaeva