Eduardo Alessi Alessi itibaren Băile Homorod 535801, Romanya
Heartbreaking and poignant, the letters between Marina Tsvetaeva, Rainer Maria Rilke and Boris Pasternak show the strength of the written word in extraordinarily difficult times; Tsvetaeva in exile in France, Pasternak squeaking by in Moscow, and Rilke slowly dying in the Swiss countryside. Their emotive and passionate letters show the evolution of their poetic ideas that would remain with Tsvetaeva and Pasternak for the entirety of their lives. Without this creative collaboration between the three (neither Tsvetaeva nor Pasternak would ever meet Rilke in adulthood), the salient poems from this time would not exist. Tsvetaeva and Rilke's ruminations on the purpose of the poet is particularly moving. Timely, and beautiful.