Tsvetaeva's Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word

“Olga Peters Hasty clarifies as never before the substance of Tsvetaeva’s romanticism—a philosophical concern with poetry as a bridge to a higher realm of experience, and a typological style of thinking inspired by folklore and myth. The book thus renders a double service to Tsvetaeva scholarship, both illuminating Tsvetaeva’s creative philosophy and helping to define her place in the romantic tradition . . . Hasty has traced the logic of Tsvetaeva’s thinking with impressive nuance and clarity.” —Catherine Ciepiela, Slavic Review

"Olga Peters Hasty's recent book is a rare treat: articulate, learned, and sensitive . . . Hasty's admirable talent—obviously informed by a keen poetic ear and a penetrating knowledge of the Russian language—for uncovering unexpected paranomastic echoes and shimmering linguistic ambiguities in her close readings of Tsvetaeva's poetry is [an] indubitable merit of her work." —Alyssa W. Dinega, The Slavic and East European Journal