There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river.
Marina Tsvetaeva (born October 8, 1892) is considered one of the most accomplished Russian poets of the 20th century—but her life was filled with sorrow and tragedy. She primarily wrote lyrical verse, and when she left the Soviet Union to live in Berlin, Prague, and Paris, her work began to reflect a growing nostalgia for her homeland (Homesick for the Motherland). Ultimately her army officer husband was arrested for espionage along with their daughter, and Tsvetaeva killed herself in 1941 after he was executed.
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