Bride of Ice It Got So Dark This selection of poems from

This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Friuli) is at the center of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno

through hotel rooms and up close to meat viscera and enamel structures

howl of anger

to the poet's friends and lovers in gay bars and bedrooms—form a cast of characters capable of addressing desire

Bride of Ice It Got So Dark This selection of poems fromMarina Tsvetaeva (trans. Elaine Feinstein) Marina Tsvetaeva is among the great European poets of the twentieth century. With Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, she retained her humanity and integrity through Russia's 'terrible years' of the Great Terror. Even in her long, tragic exile, her roots were in Russia and the great tradition of Russian poetry. Her voice lives in part because it remains alert to her past, and to cultures,