Global Book Club Ft. Marina Tsvetaeva's Earthly Signs

A dim memory of a great queen… This is the boiling sediment at the bottom of these gilded cups. We — are outside, we — are above, we — are a long time ago. It’s for you — to be, we — have passed. We — are once and forever. We — are not. 𓇗

January sweeps us away into the bleak, snowy streets of Moscow with poet Marina Tsevetaeva's diaries from the revolutionary years and civil war. We become privy to the small moments between (and sometimes amid) the chaos of the period: market conversations between women, digging frozen potatoes from a cellar, poetry readings among the Soviet bohemians. Tsvetaeva is ruthless, compassionate, keen, and altogether brilliant in this precious collection.

𓇗 A girl in a raspberry skirt down to the floor. Tobacco pouches. An old woman, gnawed like a bone 𓇗

🗣 Discussion led by Rachael @booksmoving.

📚 Book is available for purchase @ LSHB.

⭐️ Please note: any no-shows will be placed on the waitilist for future book clubs.