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“elaine feinstein”

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  • Talking to the Dead

    by Elaine Feinstein ...
    A tender work of mourning, this poetry collection—owing to the remembered words of a much-loved husband—recalls the author's life before marriage and considers a future after her husband's death. Imagining that future, she confronts the myths of an afterlife, a belief in God, her debts to other poets, and her dependence on friends and children. At the center of these beautiful lyrics—written with ... Read more

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  • Bride of Ice

    Selected Poems

    Translated by Elaine Feinstein ...
    by Marina Tsvetaeva ...
    A powerful collection of poems from one of Russia's greatest voices, translated by a poet who understood her intimately. Marina Tsvetaeva, alongside Akhmatova, Pasternak, and Mandelstam, navigated the tumultuous years of 20th-century Russia with unwavering integrity. This selection, translated by Elaine Feinstein, captures the intensity and honesty that define Tsvetaeva's work.Explore themes of ... Read more

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  • Cities

    by Elaine Feinstein ...
    With 60 new poems spanning the world—from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi, New York to Sydney—this collection explores the landscape and history of each destination with vivid expressions charged by memories both fond and once forgotten. From her insightful autobiography, the author encounters friends, colleagues, and strangers in each city who stir up details of a life lived completely. At ... Read more

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  • Portraits

    by Elaine Feinstein ...
    Elaine Feinstein has always written most passionately about people. In this intimate collection, she remembers friends she has loved, writers she knows, and literary figures from the past. She writes of the Russian poet Bella Akhmadulna with tender admiration; the East End poet Emanuel Litvinoff, at work in his Bloomsbury flat; and Masha Enzenberger, who brought Feinstein into the Russian world of ... Read more

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  • The Russian Jerusalem

    by Elaine Feinstein ...
    Beginning in present day St. Petersburg, this novel explores the landscape of 20th century Russian literature through imagined encounters with the great writers of Russia's literary past. With poet Marina Tsvetaeva as the guide, meet the ghosts of writers such as Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, and Joseph Brodsky, whose worlds are interspersed with original poems, new ... Read more

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  • The Circle

    by Elaine Feinstein ...
    'Feinstein's triumph is to write so well that she makes Lena's predicament not only moving, in a perfunctory dismissive way, but also painful ... [she has] an accurate and acute feeling for language, and pauses, and silence.' GuardianLena's seemingly contented family life is coming apart at the seams. Her husband Ben has been having an affair with the au pair, and as their relationship slides he ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Sacred And Profane Love Machine

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be his only consolations after all. The neighbour, Blaise Gavender, is an amateur psychotherapist who has ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Book And The Brotherhood

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