Marina Zwetajewa (1892-1941)

Marina Zvetajeva was a Russian poet with a masculine soul. She was determined, agressive and stubborn. She described herself as an Amazon of poetry. Her style was violent and stormy, full of life and death, as honest as true. In between home and exile, between "bloody elderberries" and "burning rowan trees," she was driven back and forth. During her time in France her only contact with the outside world was by letter. In 1939 she returned to Russia and in 1941 she took her own life in the same unflinching manner in which she had lived.

Speak, memory

PRESENTER: Marina Neubert SPEAKER: Kathleen Gallego Zapata