Further reading

This bibliography lists only English-language books. I prefer to list books which are currently in print in either the U.S. or the UK.

Where possible, I have included a link to the publisher's website and to information about purchasing the book on amazon.com or amazon.co.uk. I have no connection to Amazon, but have used them a lot and find them reliable. They also provide some information that I can't give, such as reviews by customers.

Collections of Tsvetaeva's Work

Poetry

Tsvetaeva, Marina. Selected Poems. Translated and introduced by Elaine Feinstein, with literal versions provided by Angela Livingstone et al. Reprint edition. Penguin Books (U.S.), Oxford University Press (UK), 1994.
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------------------. The Demesne of the Swans. Translated by Robin Kemball. Second edition. Ardis Books, 1993.

------------------. In the Inmost Hour of the Soul. Translated by Nina Kossman. Humana Press, 1989.
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------------------. Poem of the End: Selected Narrative and Lyric Poems. Translated by Nina Kossman with Andrew Newcom. Ardis Books, 1998.
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------------------. The Ratcatcher: A Lyrical Satire. Translated by Angela Livingstone. Northwestern University Press, 2000.
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------------------. Selected Poems. Translated by David McDuff. Second edition. Bloodaxe Books (UK), Dufour Editions (U.S.), 1991.
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------------------. After Russia. Translated by Michael Naydan and Slava Yastremski. Ardis Books, 1992.
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------------------. Black Earth. (I have no other information.)
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Akhmatova, Anna; Akhmadulina, Bella; and Tsvetaeva, Marina. Three Russian Women Poets : Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Bella Akhmadulina. Edited by Mary Maddock.
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White, Mary Jane. Starry Sky to Starry Sky: Poems by Mary Jane White with translations from Marina Tsvetaeva. Holy Cow! Press, 1988.
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Prose

Tsvetaeva, Marina. A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose. Translated and edited by J. Marin King. Ardis Books, 1994.
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------------------. Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry. Translated by Angela Livingstone. Harvard University Press, 1992.
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Letters

Pasternak, Boris; Rilke, Rainer Maria; and Tsvetaeva, Marina. Letters Summer 1926: Letters Between Tsvetayeva, Pasternak and Rilke. Translated by Margaret Wettlin and Walter Arndt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1985.
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Other

Bryusov, Valery Yakovlevich. Diary of Valery Bryusov, 1893-1905. Includes an essay about Bryusov by Tsvetaeva. University of California Press, 1980.
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Biographies

Baltsvinik, Mikhail, and Irma Kudrova. Tsvetayeva: A Pictorial Biography. Ardis Books, 1989.
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Feiler, Lily. Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell. Duke University Press, 1994.
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Feinstein, Elaine. A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva. E.P. Dutton, 1987.
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----------------. Marina Tsvetayeva. This is the UK paperback edition of A Captive Lion. Penguin Books, 1989.
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Karlinsky, Simon. Marina Cvetaeva: Her Life and Art. University of California Press, 1966.

-----------------. Marina Tsvetayeva: The Woman, her World and her Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 1985, 1987, 1988.
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Losskaya, Veronika. Marina Tsvetaeva in Life. Hermitage Press, 1989.
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Razumovsky, Maria. Marina Tsvetayeva: A Critical Biography. Translated by Aleksey Gibson. Bloodaxe Books (UK), Dufour Editions (U.S.), 1992.
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Schweitzer, Viktoria. Tsvetaeva. Edited by Angela Livingstone, Robert Chandler et al. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (U.S.), Harvill Press (UK), 1992.
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Taubman, Jane A. A Life Through Poetry: Marina Tsvetaeva's Lyric Diary.
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Criticism

Boym, Svetlana. Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet. Harvard University Press, 1991.
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Cixous, Hélène. Readings: the Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva. Edited, translated and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley. University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
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Fox, Maria Stadter. The Troubling Play of Gender : The Phaedra Dramas of Tsvetaeva, Yourcenar, and H.D. Scheduled for publication in January 2001 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Hasty, Olga Peters. Tsvetaeva's Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word. Northwestern University Press, 1996.
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Kutik, Ilya. The Ode & the Odic : Essays on Mandelstam, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva & Mayakovksy. Coronet Books, 1994.
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Makin, Michael. Marina Tsvetaeva: The Poetics of Appropriation. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Perkins, Pamela. Emily Dickinson and Marina Tsvetaeva: Elliptical poets. Brown University Press, 1992, 183 pp.

Smith, Alexandra. The song of the mocking bird : Pushkin in the work of Marina Tsvetaeva. P. Lang, 1994.
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Various authors. Marina Tsvetaeva : One Hundred Years : Papers from the Tsvetaeva Centenary Symposium. Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1994.
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