Book · 2012 · Nonfiction

Dark Elderberry Branch

Name: Dark Elderberry Branch
Author: Marina Tsvetaeva

Alice James Books · 80 pages

★ 5.5 editorial score

No more passionate voice ever sounded in twentieth-century Russian poetry, the poet Brodsky said of Tsvetaeva. She came back from exile to Stalin's Russia, where the secret police took her husband and daughter.

Genre

Lyric poetry Modernism

Medium

Poetry

Subject

Exile Love Russia Suicide

Time

2012Depicts Soviet EraDepicts 20th century

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