The Passionate Letters of Poets to Poets: Rilke, Tsvetayeva, Pasternak

“Silent friend[s] of many distances,” I write to you from the mountains where Rilke wrote his final elegies and the whole of the Sonnets to Orpheus. I am thankful to the Dartmouth Leslie Center Faculty Research Fellowship funds for their support. Someone in Berlin said to me, You’re going to where there are cow bells. […]