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You’d think we wouldn’t find a way to detour through the Russian Revolution and find a connection to Natalie Barney in the same episode, but you’d be wrong. In the life of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, we do just that amid a background of economic ups and downs and the question of ‘do I give into government censorship for my poetry or do I defiantly stay poor and write what I want?’
Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)
Tsvetaeva by Viktoria Schweitzer
LETTER TO THE AMAZON by Marina Tsvetaeva (Translated by A’Dora Phillips and Gaëlle Cogan, with an introduction by Catherine Ciepiela)