Michael Makin

An insightful guide to both the life and work of the important Russian poet explores the allusions in his work to folklore, mysticism, politics and religion, in addition to his occasionally arcane vocabulary and difficult syntax.

Time and Text, Place and Poet

Nikolai Klyuev

Jindřich Toman

A Michigan Slavic Colloquium

On Karel Čapek

David Shepherd

Catriona Kelly

Dominique de Rambures

Discontinuous Discourses in Modern Russian Literature

Associate Professor Department of Slavic Languages and Literature Michael Makin

Tsvetaeva's work has an originality and diversity that has been hitherto neglected by critics. Michael Makin's book examines in depth her entire poetic output, paying particular attention to the appropriation, and frequent distortion, of familiar literary material in her lyrical, dramatic, and narrative verse. Major chapters are devoted to the long narrative poems, the mature lyric verse, and the verse plays, on which very little has so far been written.

Poetics of Appropriation

Marina Tsvetaeva

Michael Makin

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